This has been a problem with GIMP for many years now (as long as I've been using it) but it seems like it might be a very minor problem.  If so I'd love to be able to print my edited photos using GIMP.

In my case the target printer is Canon Pixma Pro 100.  The interface works very much as expected.  In that the print dialogue has a Button labeled Preferences.  When this is selected the Canon driver setup dialogue is invoked.  On this photo printer there are lots of options that can be selected to prepare for printing.  This includes many options NOT commonly available on a typical office printer.  However, one of the options, which is very standard, is the need to specify the size of paper on which the image is to be printed.  As it turns out no matter what size paper is selected GIMP seems to insist on setting it to Letter (8.5x11) inch.  Fortunately, this Canon driver has a preview option, that still works, which displays what the driver intends to do.  This allows the printing operation to be canceled if something is amiss, which when using GIMP is always very conspicuous.

This raises the question, "might GIMP work correctly when printing on Letter size paper?".  While it is technically possible, GIMP still does something to mess up the options selected by the driver.  One of those has to do with the border.  The Pixma Pro printers are capable of "Borderless" printing.  In that, printing all the way to the edge of the paper.  Unfortunately, it seems that GIMP does something to negate this capability.  Interestingly GIMP does provide a "Page Setup" dialogue which is used to specify both paper and border size separately from the Canon driver.  When using the "Page Setup" dialogue it appears as though GIMP does NOT allow the border values to be set to zero.

Since GIMP does invoke the Canon provided printer driver software one might expect that it shouldn't be too hard to stay out of the way and let it operate as it should.  Instead GIMP is doing something, presumably unintentional, that essentially prevents me from using it to print photos.

Today I installed Samj's portable version 2.10.32 and after a few minutes of use I noticed a new behavior in this version that doesn't seem normal to me.

Whenever I delete either a layer, a channel or a path everything disappears for a fraction of a second (almost 1 second).

If I have 5 layers and I delete one of them, all layers disappear for a short time, not just the deleted layer. 

Same for channels and paths.

I still have Samj's portable version 2.10.28 installed and in this version when I delete something (layer, channel or path) the rest remains visible. In other words, normal behavior.

Is this a bug in this version (Samj's Portable 2.10.32)?

Are there any tweaks I can try to fix this problem?

Thanks!

How do you create registration marks on transparency film for screen printing, I have tried several times and am at my witts end,,,,is it that complex or I am that dumb  :/

GIMP 2.10.18

What will be an easy way adding date on photo ?

Performed following steps;
Open photo
Tools -> Text

It seems nothing happened.

Pls advise.  Thanks

Regards

Hi all,

GIMP 2.10.18

Pls advise how to display Toolbox on left top-corner similar to photo attached ?

on
-> Edit -> Preferences -> Toolbox
?

Thanks

Regards

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By popular demand you also have a GEGL post icon and a GEGL smiley .

Hi,

Let's say I drow a horizontal line in a layer.

What tool can I use to curve it (then the line becomes a smile) ?

Thanks 

Hi,
Please I need help.
Anyone please write a script-fu script for me that can merge 2 layers into one layer

Could anyone tell me about an application that compares the content between two or more folders in Windows.

I try to keep my Gimps (USB Flash Drive and HD) exactly the same, whenever I make a change in one of them (add or remove a plugin, brush, presets, etc), I make the same change in the other.

But from time to time I end up making unilateral changes, sometimes on the HD, sometimes on the 
Flash Drive.

So when I have time, I compare the folders in my Gimps (FD and HD) and fix the differences. But this is laborious done manually, so I'm looking for some program that makes this routine easier.

Thx!

After the latest update to gimp, I need an updated libgegl-0.4-0.

If I do:
apt list --upgradable I get:
libgegl-0.4-0
libheif-dev
libheif1

If I then do:
sudo apt upgrade I get:
that the three packages have been kept back:
3 not to upgrade.

How do I solve this problem?
All help gratefully received.

Edit: I should have added that this is the pandajim 2.10.30 with python 2.7 support (thanks to Rich) - everything working until the update today.