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<H2 class="western"><A name="__RefHeading___Toc15515_1469257139"></A><A name="13.1.Printing from applications|outline">
</A> 13.1 Printing from applications</H2>
<P class="western">Most Linux programs that have a print dialog option
 automatically show all printers that have been set up. Many programs
 also allow to examine and modify the current printer driver settings.</P>
<P class="western">Only few programs like GIMP and Firefox are an
 exception &ndash; here the user has to add a printer before using it for the
 first time (GIMP) or there is no access to printer driver settings
 (Firefox). Such programs are covered in separate sections at the end of
 this chapter.</P>
<P class="western">A specialty of Linux &ndash; compared to other operating
 systems like Windows or Mac OS &ndash; is that the print dialog and
 especially printer driver settings can look quite different in
 different applications. One reason is that application programmers can
 use the print dialog from one of the application frameworks (like Gnome
 or KDE) or program their own print dialogs. Another reason is that
 there is no standard dialog box for driver settings that a driver could
 make available to applications.</P>
<P class="western">TODO - general section on: how do the driver settings
 look like in the application print dialog</P>
<H3 class="western"><A name="__RefHeading___Toc15517_1469257139"></A>
13.1.1 KDE applications</H3>
<P class="western">All programs that were programmed using the KDE
 application framework &ndash; like Konqueror or digiKam &ndash; have the same print
 dialog. First select your printer:</P>
 <P ALIGN="CENTER" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG align="left" height="147" hspace="19" name="Grafik23" src="kde-printdialog.png"
vspace="4" width="378"></P>
<BR clear="left">
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<P class="western">With the button &quot;Properties&quot; you can examine or
 modify print settings:</P>
 <P ALIGN="CENTER" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG align="left" height="215" hspace="19" name="Grafik24" src="kde-printdialog2.png"
vspace="4" width="427"></P>
<BR clear="left">
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<P class="western">The printer driver settings can be found on the index
 page &quot;Driver settings&quot;. To change a setting, click on an item in the
 list (e.g. &quot;Print quality&quot;) &ndash; in the lower part of the window a list of
 possible settings will appear. Click on the setting of your choice.</P>
<H3 class="western"><A name="__RefHeading___Toc15519_1469257139"></A>
13.1.2 GNOME applications</H3>
<P class="western">Applications that are based on the Gnome desktop also
 have a uniform print dialog &ndash; Gnome applications are e.g. Evolution,
 gThumb or eyeofGnome. The print dialog shows all printers that have
 been set up on the computer:</P>
 <P ALIGN="CENTER" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG align="left" height="207" hspace="19" name="Grafik25" src="gnome-printdialog.png"
vspace="4" width="340"></P>
<BR clear="left">
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<P class="western">The index card &quot;Page Setup&quot; contains the &quot;Paper type&quot;
 and &quot;Paper source&quot; settings:</P>
 <P ALIGN="CENTER" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG align="left" height="219" hspace="19" name="Grafik26" src="gnome-printdialog2.png"
vspace="4" width="340"></P>
<BR clear="left">
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<P class="western">On the index card &quot;Image Quality&quot; you can change the
 print quality, the index card &quot;Advanced&quot; contains all other printer
 driver settings:</P>
 <P ALIGN="CENTER" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG align="left" height="197" hspace="19" name="Grafik27" src="gnome-printdialog3.png"
vspace="4" width="341"></P>
<BR clear="left">
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<H3 class="western" style="page-break-before: always"><A name="__RefHeading___Toc15521_1469257139">
</A><A name="13.1.3.OpenOffice|outline"></A><A name="13.1.3.OpenOffice|outline">
</A><A name="13.1.3.OpenOffice|outline"></A> 13.1.3 LibreOffice
 / OpenOffice</H3>
<P class="western">In the LibreOffice / OpenOffice print
 dialog choose your printer next to the field &quot;Name&quot;:</P>
 <P ALIGN="CENTER" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG align="left" height="181" hspace="19" name="Grafik32" src="oo-printdialog.png"
vspace="4" width="302"></P>
<BR clear="left">
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
</P>
<P class="western">In the dialog &quot;Properties...&quot; you can inspect or
 adjust printer settings:</P>
 <P ALIGN="CENTER" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG align="left" height="237" hspace="19" name="Grafik33" src="oo-printdialog1.png"
vspace="4" width="302"></P>
<BR clear="left">
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
</P>
<P class="western">You can find other printer driver settings on the
 index card &bdquo;Device&ldquo;:</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
</P>
 <P ALIGN="CENTER" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG align="left" height="243" hspace="19" name="Grafik34" src="oo-printdialog2.png"
vspace="4" width="302"></P>
<BR clear="left">
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
</P>
<P class="western">The settings &quot;PostScript Level&quot;, &quot;Color&quot; and &quot;Color
 depth&quot; should be left at their default values &quot;from driver&quot; and &quot;24
 Bit&quot; (see screenshot).</P>
<P class="western" style="font-weight: normal">

</P>
 <P ALIGN="CENTER" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG align="left" height="185" hspace="19" name="Grafik35" src="oo-printdialog3.png"
vspace="4" width="340"></P>
<BR clear="left">
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
</P>
<P class="western">In the dialog &quot;Options...&quot; there is an option for
 printing brochures with two pages on one sheet. In combination with
 TurboPrint's duplex function you can print booklets &ndash; you only have to
 fold the printed stack of paper after printing on both sides.</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<H3 class="western" style="page-break-before: always"><A name="__RefHeading___Toc15523_1469257139">
</A> 13.1.4 GIMP</H3>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">During installation of
 TurboPrint optionally a print dialog for GIMP can be installed, which
 has enhancements for TurboPrint. This dialog can be opened from GIMP
 with the menu entry &quot;File -&gt; TurboPrint...&quot;.</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
 <P ALIGN="CENTER" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG align="left" height="342" hspace="19" name="Grafik28" src="gimp.png"
vspace="4" width="310"></P>
<BR clear="left">
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<P class="western">The special print dialog automatically lists all
 TurboPrint printers &ndash; choose the printer you want to print with in the
 list &quot;Printer Name&quot;.</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The driver settings &quot;Media
 Type&quot;, &quot;Print Quality&quot;, &quot;Color Mode&quot;, &quot;RGB Color Space&quot; and &quot;Page Size&quot;
 can be selected directly in the print dialog, for other settings use
 the button &quot;TurboPrint Config&quot;.</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm"><B>Note:</B> The GIMP
 print dialog maintains its own print settings, changes made in
 TurboPrint Control Center or TurboPrint Monitor are ignored. Always use
 the button &ldquo;TurboPrint Config&rdquo; to change print settings.</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<P class="western">

</P>
<P class="western">A special feature of the TurboPrint print dialog is
 the possibility to scale images to more than 100%, so that the a
 section of the image that fills the whole page is printed.</P>
<P class="western">The button &quot;Borderless Image Size&quot; will set the
 scaling factor automatically so that the image fills the page
 completely and no white margins will remain on the printout.</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm">
<!--span lang=&quot;en-US&quot;-->
<B>Note:</B>
<!--span lang=&quot;en-US&quot;-->
 The TurboPrint print dialog for GIMP is a modified version of the
 original GIMP/Gutenprint dialog (version gutenprint-5.1.6) which was
 published under GNU General Public License Version 2. The version for
 TurboPrint is also published under GNU GPL V2, the sourcecode is
 available on our FTP server <A class="western" href="ftp://ftp.zedonet.com/gpturboprint">
ftp.zedonet.com/gpturboprint</A>.</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<H3 class="western"><A name="__RefHeading___Toc15525_1469257139"></A>
13.1.5 Firefox</H3>
<P class="western">In the Firefox print dialog choose the TurboPrint
 printer next to &quot;Printer Name&quot;.</P>
 <P ALIGN="CENTER" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG align="left" height="221" hspace="19" name="Grafik30" src="firefox.png"
vspace="4" width="302"></P>
<BR clear="left">
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<P class="western">In the &quot;Properties&quot; dialog you can choose the paper
 size and modify page margins:</P>
 <P ALIGN="CENTER" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG align="left" height="122" hspace="19" name="Grafik31" src="firefox2.png"
vspace="4" width="298"></P>
<BR clear="left">
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<P class="western">If headers or footers are cut off on the printout,
 you should increase the values for top and/or bottom margins.</P>
<P class="western">
<!--span lang=&quot;en-US&quot;-->
Firefox doesn't offer any additional print settings. If you need to
 change settings like print quality, media type etc., you can change the
 printer default settings in the TurboPrint control center menu instead
 (see chapter &quot;<A class="western" href="8-.html#8.TurboPrint print settings|outline">
8. TurboPrint print settings</A>&quot;).</P>
<H3 class="western"><A name="__RefHeading___Toc15527_1469257139"></A>
13.1.6 Older programs (e.g. Netscape / Mozilla)</H3>
<P class="western">Some application programs print by executing a
 command line internally: The application creates a temporary file that
 contains the pages to be printed (usually in &quot;Postscript&quot; file format)
 and executes the lp or lpr command line program.</P>
<P class="western">With some programs the command line can be edited &ndash;
 the user can specify the print command and the parameters e.g.</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<PRE class="western">lp -d tp0 

<!--span lang=&quot;en-US&quot;-->
lpr -P tp0 </PRE>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<P class="western">(replace &quot;tp0&quot; by the actual name of the print
 queue).</P>
<P class="western">Instead of lp you can also enter the KDE command</P>
<PRE class="western">kprinter </PRE>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">or with the Gnome desktop
 the command</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<PRE class="western">gtklp</PRE>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</P>
<P class="western">kprinter or gtklp will open a window where you can
 choose the printer driver and inspect or modify print settings.</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm"><B>Note</B>: You should
 first make sure that &quot;kprinter&quot; or &quot;gtklp&quot; is installed on your
 computer. Open a command line (&quot;Terminal&quot;) and enter the command
 &quot;kprinter&quot; / &quot;gtklp&quot;. If an error message like &quot;Command
 not found&quot; appears, you will have to install the program using the
 package manager of your Linux system first.</P>
<P class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
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