Xara Printing

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04 September 2006, 08:38 PM
fjgaude

Xara Printing

Impressive progress when it comes to printing, at least with my Epson R220 inkjet. I hadn't tried the printing lately thinking someone would annouce it working. It works somewhat perfectly now, and it just means that the developers are moving faster than I at first had thought.

Been spending some time, since AI, PNG, JPG and some SVG are importing, thinking about how I'll be using Linux in a workflow, the whole shot, if you know what I mean. I vowed to not upgrade to Win Vista. <sigh>

Can anyone say what Xara v0.8 will have achieved over what we already have? Thanks to all, one and all.

frank
05 September 2006, 09:25 AM
abligh

Re: Xara Printing

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Originally Posted by fjgaude

Impressive progress when it comes to printing, at least with my Epson R220 inkjet. I hadn't tried the printing lately thinking someone would annouce it working.

I thought we did in the 0.7 release? It should be working now from the autopackage version though I understand there is a problem on the Debian / Ubuntu .deb due to the way they compile wxWidgets.

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Originally Posted by fjgaude

Can anyone say what Xara v0.8 will have achieved over what we already have?

I don't think there is a complete feature list there, but I'm hoping to get the brush stuff in (that's one of the main missing areas of tool functionality), and tidy up galleries a bit, for my part.

Alex
05 September 2006, 03:10 PM
fjgaude

Re: Xara Printing

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Originally Posted by abligh

I thought we did in the 0.7 release? It should be working now from the autopackage version though I understand there is a problem on the Debian / Ubuntu .deb due to the way they compile wxWidgets.

I don't think there is a complete feature list there, but I'm hoping to get the brush stuff in (that's one of the main missing areas of tool functionality), and tidy up galleries a bit, for my part.

Alex

Well, when I opened the Print options, Print layout menu I thought things were more broken than they are. <smile>

Brushes are coming and... thanks for the good work,

frank
05 September 2006, 04:26 PM
abligh

Re: Xara Printing

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Originally Posted by fjgaude

Well, when I opened the Print options, Print layout menu I thought things were more broken than they are. <smile>

Oh are you seeing the "internal error" too? That's odd. Which version are you using?

Alex
05 September 2006, 07:15 PM
fjgaude

Re: Xara Printing

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Originally Posted by abligh

Oh are you seeing the "internal error" too? That's odd. Which version are you using?

Alex

No error msg, just the offset menu and its text. Easy to fix, when the time comes.

frank
06 September 2006, 08:59 AM
abligh

Re: Xara Printing

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Originally Posted by fjgaude

No error msg, just the offset menu and its text. Easy to fix, when the time comes.

frank

I don't think I see that. Can you provide a screenshot please?

Alex
06 September 2006, 02:10 PM
fjgaude

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Originally Posted by abligh

I don't think I see that. Can you provide a screenshot please?

Alex

Here's the window:
06 September 2006, 02:56 PM
abligh

Re: Xara Printing

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Originally Posted by fjgaude

Here's the window:

OK. Looks fine here. What distro are you running? We really need to redesign all those panes with sizers and this sort of problem would go away.

Alex
06 September 2006, 04:03 PM
fjgaude

Re: Xara Printing

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Originally Posted by abligh

OK. Looks fine here. What distro are you running? We really need to redesign all those panes with sizers and this sort of problem would go away.

Alex

Distro, Fedora Core 5 with the very latest updates, in Gnome desktop, not KDE. Will try KDE and see if same issue is there.

frank
06 September 2006, 04:08 PM
fjgaude

Re: Xara Printing

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Originally Posted by fjgaude

Distro, Fedora Core 5 with the very latest updates, in Gnome desktop, not KDE. Will try KDE and see if same issue is there.

frank

Oh wow, it's as it should be in KDE... so it is a Gnome issue in rendering, huh?

frank
07 September 2006, 11:33 PM
abligh

Re: Xara Printing

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Originally Posted by fjgaude

Oh wow, it's as it should be in KDE... so it is a Gnome issue in rendering, huh?

frank

Sounds more like a strange fontsize bug. Works fine in Gnome here. Obviously still there is some problem though.

Alex
08 September 2006, 03:06 PM
foxy123

Re: Xara Printing

Quote:

Originally Posted by abligh

I thought we did in the 0.7 release? It should be working now from the autopackage version though I understand there is a problem on the Debian / Ubuntu .deb due to the way they compile wxWidgets.
Alex

Is there any way to print from Xara on Ubuntu Dapper? I am using the autopackage 0.7 rev. 1729.
08 September 2006, 05:39 PM
Soquili

Re: Xara Printing

Hi Foxy123,

Welcome to Talkgraphics.

Are you able to print from other applications on your Ubuntu Dapper system? If you can, which printer daemon are you using (lpr/lpd/cups)?
08 September 2006, 05:43 PM
foxy123

Re: Xara Printing

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Originally Posted by Soquili

Hi Foxy123,

Welcome to Talkgraphics.

Are you able to print from other applications on your Ubuntu Dapper system? If you can, which printer daemon are you using (lpr/lpd/cups)?

Hi Soquili, yes I can print from other applications without a problem. I use cups.
08 September 2006, 06:35 PM
Soquili

Re: Xara Printing

I use CUPS as well. From the File menu in the Printer Setup, does it show your printer? I had to select my printer from the drop down list before I could print.
09 September 2006, 08:49 AM
foxy123

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Originally Posted by Soquili

I use CUPS as well. From the File menu in the Printer Setup, does it show your printer? I had to select my printer from the drop down list before I could print.

yes, I've got my printer in Printer Setup. Though I do not have a drop-down menu, it is a just a list, see it below. As you can see I have my printer ticked. However in the print dialog box I have "Generic postcript" as a printer. So when I click Print, nothing happens :(
09 September 2006, 09:37 AM
PFX

Re: Xara Printing

Hello,

Same thing same problem for me.
Under Ubuntu Dapper with HP-color-Laserjet-2550.

PFX
09 September 2006, 07:06 PM
Soquili

Re: Xara Printing

I have to say that sometime between rev 1692 and 1742 the ability to print from XaraLX has disappeared. I cannot get the program to print using CUPS or any other print configuration.

I'm using Debian 3.1r2 and Gnome 2.8.1

The debug report created by XaraLX has been added to the BZ 1609 report.
09 September 2006, 07:48 PM
fjgaude

Re: Xara Printing

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soquili

I have to say that sometime between rev 1692 and 1742 the ability to print from XaraLX has disappeared. I cannot get the program to print using CUPS or any other print configuration.

I'm using Debian 3.1r2 and Gnome 2.8.1

Well, I'm printing fine with FC5, with latest updates through yum, and Gnome 2.14 from Xara r1745. We will have to wait until one of the developers sorts it all out for everyone's distro. We know that the printing function is not finished.

I set my default printer in Gnome System/Administration/Printing, after providing the password. Patience, patience... then just leave it to my page size. I don't have a postscript printer, but that is taken care with through ghostscript as I understand Xara uses presently. <smile>

frank
09 September 2006, 07:52 PM
Soquili

Re: Xara Printing

Hi Frank,

Glad to know someone can print from XaraLX :)

All will be worked out as the developers progress in their excellent work.
10 September 2006, 12:49 PM
foxy123

Re: Xara Printing

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soquili

I have to say that sometime between rev 1692 and 1742 the ability to print from XaraLX has disappeared. I cannot get the program to print using CUPS or any other print configuration.

I'm using Debian 3.1r2 and Gnome 2.8.1

The debug report created by XaraLX has been added to the BZ 1609 report.

i cannot print with either version: 1742, 1745 or 1692 :(
10 September 2006, 09:11 PM
foxy123

Re: Xara Printing

well, I tried to compile xara from the source. It was ok, but I do not have 'Printer Setup' option at all (it's inactive, grey) and if I try to print to my printer it crashes with the following output from the panel:

Code:

(XaraLX:7423): GnomePrint-WARNING **: Could not create filter from description 'frgba': filter 'frgba' is unknown Aborted

Any help with printing will be really appreciated.
10 September 2006, 09:30 PM
fjgaude

Re: Xara Printing

Quote:

Originally Posted by foxy123

well, I tried to compile xara from the source. It was ok, but I do not have 'Printer Setup' option at all (it's inactive, grey) and if I try to print to my printer it crashes with the following output from the panel:

Code:

(XaraLX:7423): GnomePrint-WARNING **: Could not create filter from description 'frgba': filter 'frgba' is unknown Aborted

Any help with printing will be really appreciated.

Do you have a place in your OS to select a default printer? Have you done that?

frank
11 September 2006, 08:02 PM
foxy123

Re: Xara Printing

Quote:

Originally Posted by fjgaude

Do you have a place in your OS to select a default printer? Have you done that?

frank

thanks a lot, it did it!

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