Better N-up print support; No easy way to print a single sheet of multiple copies of the same photo

Thanks for your bug. I've forwarded it upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349648

Printing more than one image per page is possible with gthumb, although its print dialog has some other deficiencies. It can of course also be done with GIMP or another image editor.

Upstream asks:

see also Gnome Photo Printer
http://www.fogman.de/?GnomePhotoPrinter

http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/09/0319227&tid=13&tid=49
http://hardware.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/03/0620241

are you sure EoG is the right place for this? do you want to continue this
request or is Gnome Photo Printer enough?
it seems like integrating Gnome Photo Printer might be the way to go.

As long as there is an easy, obvious way to print more than one of the
same photo on the same sheet of paper, I'm happy. I think it is more up
to Canonical to judge where the appropriate place to put that
functionality would be.

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 09:00 +0000, Daniel Holbach wrote:

> Upstream asks:
>
> see also Gnome Photo Printer
> http://www.fogman.de/?GnomePhotoPrinter
>
> http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/09/0319227&tid=13&tid=49
> http://hardware.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/03/0620241
>
> are you sure EoG is the right place for this? do you want to continue this
> request or is Gnome Photo Printer enough?
> it seems like integrating Gnome Photo Printer might be the way to go.
>
> ** Changed in: eog (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Needs Info
>

I was just about to report this bug and am glad to see someone already has...

eog should definitely have this capability as most users (including myself) who transited from Windows XP see eog as "Windows Image and Fax Viewer" for Ubuntu.

We need one app for all of our basic image manipulating needs and I feel eog is very close to being that app.

If eog has the added print functionality it will be equal to the XP equivalent IMO which says a lot.

If eog has the added ability to Resize and Crop it will be one mark higher. ;)

The lack of this future even holds my mother from switching to linux. gthumb & GNOME photo printer are both not capable of doing this in an easy way.

I was just about to report this major restriction, too, and am glad that you have also reported it.

As I see it, creating such a dialogue should be an easy, but absolutely urgent and necessary task. Ubuntu is still lacking some "standard features" that can be *very* annoying, and among these I count this one. Printing photos is an everyday task and for an OS that is made "for human beings", such a task should be easy to accomplish.

My proposal: Add a "Print photo" subpoint to the context menu and create a nice dialogue with a preview of what is going to be printed. Take a look at Windows' one, it is very well structured actually.

I can hardly imagine anything more annoying than wasting two hours for printing two copies of a 13x18cm photo!

I have linked this bug report to a corresponding blueprint.
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/easier-photo-printing

Has there been any progress with this important feature in the recent time?

Devs, any progress :-)?

There has been no activity for this report in a long while. As I think that this might break a new user's experience, I would like to propose it for the papercuts project.

Thanks a lot for reporting this as a papercut, however this constitutes a feature request which is outwith the definition of a papercut, so I am declining it. Also, given the length of time that seems to have elapsed, I think it's safe to say that the solution to this is non-trivial, which also invalidates it as a papercut.

For what it's worth, a few months ago this problem shaved 6 years off my life. I'd love to see a fix.

A better printing dialog in general would be good since I was trying to print 4 pdfs on the same sheet and had the resort to Windows