Hi
Running Kinote 41 all software up to date.
Using Gimp (V3) last night I went to print and noticed I have no options to print preview my document before sending to printer.
Has it been removed or am i being dumb ???
Thanks
I checked Gimp 3, went to File>Print
In the top right hand of the print dialogue, it has “preview” and “print”
“preview” opened a print view in Firefox (because it is my default PDF viewer) as file:///tmp/preview289Q32.pdf
Different, but a great way to preview a print file.
As shown the preview & print is not available to me. Can I ask are you also running an upto date Kinote 41 ???
No I’m on regular F41 with Gimp 3.
The print window is very different.
I get a whole screen covered in a print dialogue.
I did not know that Gimp would have different versions for Atomic and Regular. Do you use a Flatpak?
The window here is a third type!
What is under the ‘options’ button?
What happens when you print preview from another program, e.g. LibreOffice? Do you have the same dialogue window there?
I’m a GNOME user, but I’ve tested this on a Fedora KDE 41 VM with both the RPM and Flatpak versions of GIMP, and it seems that the Flatpak version opens a different print dialog. In the RPM version the Preview button is there, but not in the Flatpak version.
The Flatpak version accesses the printing portal, which opens a printing dialog similar to the ones used by native KDE apps (e.g. KWrite), whereas the RPM version seems to bring its own custom printing dialog.
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Cheers folks.. Mike B you were spot on, RPM version does have it, how daft.
Problem sorted thank you
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GTK3 provides the preview dialog, flatpak would use xdg-desktop-portal-gtk to provide it on gnome based systems.
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If you were using Fedora Flatpaks, you might want to give the ones from Flathub a try.
Thanks, have layered via RPM and all sorted thank you
You might want to open a specific issue under the KDE xdg-desktop-portal for printing to support previews
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