Viewer with good printing quality and many features
 

I am searching for a good viewer that gives good printout quality and also offers many features, most important for me:

• On print scale image to fit page
• On print center image on page
• Fullscreen mode
• lossless jpeg rotation
• Slideshow (with music playing in background)

In reality the first 2 points are most important because I have a Canon foto printer and the applications that are installed with FC5 by default lack of good printing quality or of those needed features (otherwise I get only a part of the image printed).

For lossless jpg rotation I can use the "builtin" image viewer even for slideshow (without music playing in the background) but I can live with this.

Note: I am using the Gutenprint 5.0.0 and in the GIMP I am missing the foto printer (don't know why) - so the GIMP I can so far not use to test the printing quality.

Any suggestions?

Hello
I don't use Fedora Core 5, but with SUSE Linux, a necessary rpm package must be installed before being able to print with the Gimp software. It is the libgimpprint package. Maybe such a package is also necessary with Fedora Core 5.
With Gimp and the gimpprint libraries, before printing, I can scale the image in a preview, to get the dimension I wish, and I can move the image in the page to position it where I wish. So these may be the good tools for doing what you want.
I hope you finally will find what you are looking for.

I have the gimpprint installed but it is not compatible with my foto printer from Canon. I need the GutenPrint 5.0 which I have installed but in GIMP the foto printer is not available unfortunately.

So I am looking for alternatives - not only because of the missing printer - even because it shouldn't be neccessary to start that big application for only printing out an image.

Whenever Gimp hasn't worked for me with printing photos I've used OpenOffice. Maybe overkill but it worked fine.

Thank you for that great tip!

See http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...80#post2436280