Printing photos
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I took the opportunity of my aunt being worried by some email that Losedows 10 would have no more support in some time to bring her a computer with Trisquel installed. I managed to find what she was looking for, the printer/scanner worked immediately without doing anything (nice surprise, I need to add it to h-node) but there was one thing where I could not find out how an easy way to do what she wanted: printing a photo. I managed with darktable but it is a little too heavy for such a simple task.
In MATE, photos open in viewnior but I could not find any print option. Besides, in Losedows, my aunt is used to select a number of photos in the file manager, click share and print, and then she has an option to select a layout with a singe photo or multiple photos per page.
Is anyone using a similar feature on Trisquel? How are you doing this?
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I use Eye of MATE as default image viewer. You get various options in Image > Print, including size and position, but this only applies to the current image in the viewer.
Shotwell does a good job of organizing image collections, but I never used it for printing purposes.
Checkout Shotwell.
According to my searching on the internet it supports N-up printing:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/477714/is-it-possible-to-print-multiple-and-different-photos-from-shotwell
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Thanks for the hints.
Something like http://www.blackfiveimaging.co.uk/index.php?article=02Software/01PhotoPrint would be exactly what I need: it allows to control margins and gaps between the photos. However, it is unmaintained and when I run ./configure, it complains that I don't have glib-2.0.
The problem with all software I tried that can print n pages on 1 is that there is nothing to adjust margin and gaps, have the set of photos centered and have a visual clue on the whole layout, I need to get a preview based on photos for that. With shotwell, the preview is just a blank page, so it is not usable. With geeqie, the preview works but with a rather powerful PC, it takes a while to show up. Then, at 100% scale, there are no gaps between columns but there are gaps between rows. With photos that have a 1.5 width/heigth ratio and 95% scale, there are somehow equal gaps but the set of photos is not centered, margins on the bottom and on the right are much larger than on the top and on the left, which is not nice.
A couple more hints as season greeting bonus:
- gthumb - I never used it but you may be luckier with this one than with shotwell for multiple images per page preview,
- LibreOffice Draw is quite a versatile and underrated tool that can help with many other things than actual drawings. Although it is quite good at drawings too. So the hint here would be to use Draw to create the desired layout, then print the outcome as a regular page.
gthumb is my go to tool for image managing, viewing and quick editing.
The Link at the Wikipedia article about gthumb says "This site has been retired. ..." I don't see gthumb listed at https://apps.gnome.org
Is there another website where to find out more about it?
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Thanks for the new hints.
With gthumb the set of photos is automatically centered and looks good, excellent. In addition, the preview is faster than with geeqie. That will certainly be my first suggestion.
About LibreOffice Draw, if I want to print 3 pages with 4 photos on each, do I need to create one page with the first 4 photos inserted, another with the next 4 and yet another for the remaining 4, or is there a way to make a kind of template that is a single page and apply it automatically for 3 sets of 4 photos?
As an example of how one could proceed with Draw, I dragged and dropped four random wallpaper pics into a new odg document, used the grid to get a proper layout (page 1), then duplicated that page, right-clicked on each picture, selected "Replace..." and chose a different file (page 2).
The new pictures automatically filled the space occupied by the previous ones, so you may want to make sure how a picture of different size or ratio would be adapted. It looked like some were cropped to fit, but I did not study the process in more details. The newly inserted pictures may simply be stretched to fit. If all pictures have the same size and ratio, this should not make any difference anyway.
