How to print several digital photos on one A4 sheet

Hi

Can you put normal paper in the printer and try printing odinary text from inside OpenOffice/AbiWord or something? Are you able to print normal text?

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

Hi Tom. OK I opened up a file from Openoffice.org Word Processor and it
printed fine. I do not know AbiWord. Cheers Brian

On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 11:14 +0000, Tom wrote:
> Your question #78078 on cups in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+question/78078
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Tom requested for more information:
> Hi
>
> Can you put normal paper in the printer and try printing odinary text
> from inside OpenOffice/AbiWord or something? Are you able to print
> normal text?
>
> Thanks and regards from
> Tom :)
>

AbiWord is the word-processor in Xubuntu because it's lighter than OpenOffice which Ubuntu and Kubuntu use. So don't worry about using it now that you've printed using OpenOffice anyway.

I've not used FSpot for this and i guess the next step is to see if you can drag a picture onto part of an OpenOffice page and print the whole page including the picture? This should at least start pinning the problem down to one area or another. If this does work then please let us know. I wont be able to answer if it does work as we'll need to wait for someone who knows FSpot to drop in instead. If the picture doesn't print then i have a few ideas ;)

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Hi Tom. I have installed AbiWorld.

I can click and drag ONE pic from F-Spot to either OpenOffice or
AbiWorld and both will print just the ONE pic.

I cannot seem to get several pix to go on to just one A4 sheet and print
out all of them. [When I used Windows I had no trouble at all !!!
sigh.]

For Open Office I can highlight and click and drag 5 pix. They appear
as 1 pic per page and I see them all individually by clicking either
Undo: insert linked bitmap OR Redo: insert linked bitmap. HOWEVER I
have just tried to repeat this and only one pic out of the 5 seems to
have transferred this time!

for AbiWorld I can select 5 pix and click and drag and after a very long
time 5 pics do transfer but so slowly, and only as 2 pix pix per page.
Also Print Preview shows 2 pix per page. However Abiworld did not print
these (I expected 2 prints per page but got nothing even after waiting 5
minutes!)

That seems to be all for the moment.

Cheers Brian

On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 13:57 +0000, Tom wrote:
> Your question #78078 on cups in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+question/78078
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Tom proposed the following answer:
> AbiWord is the word-processor in Xubuntu because it's lighter than
> OpenOffice which Ubuntu and Kubuntu use. So don't worry about using it
> now that you've printed using OpenOffice anyway.
>
> I've not used FSpot for this and i guess the next step is to see if you
> can drag a picture onto part of an OpenOffice page and print the whole
> page including the picture? This should at least start pinning the
> problem down to one area or another. If this does work then please let
> us know. I wont be able to answer if it does work as we'll need to wait
> for someone who knows FSpot to drop in instead. If the picture doesn't
> print then i have a few ideas ;)
>
> Good luck and regards from
> Tom :)
>

So pictures are printing which rules out most of the problems i was thinking of :(
Have you tried making a table in OpenOffice? When you drag a picture into OpenOffice you should be able to click on the picture and adjust the size by dragging the green boxes at the corners in? I would guess that you've already tried this though?

Good luck with this
Regards from
Tom

The "KompoZer" package mentioned briefly at one point early on is for Kubuntu not Ubuntu. Although there probably is an equivalent for Ubuntu that particular idea seems to be quickly abandoned anyway. I would scroll further down for advice later on in that thread :)

Apologies for my late response to your answers. Thanks Tom I was able to drag each pic individually into a cell in a table in Open Office and to print the page. It does seem a rather cumbersome way to do it though.
    I was also able to follow instructions and open up gthumb and use automatic sizing. This seemed even easier as the sheet was printed with all the images I wanted.
   However I did try the same thing with opening in GIMP Image Editor but I was not able to get all my images on the same sheet in print preview. When I printed I only got one image per sheet although it was small and think the remaining images would have fitted on to the sheet.
      Is there any other software that makes printing images easy ? For example resizing each image differently, rearranging images to be printed on one sheet ?
   Thank you for your help. Cheers Brian

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows

Hi :)

Ok, i've found this guide. Near the bottom of the page might be helpful?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Photos/Printing

Also it looks like something worth adding to the wish-list at FSpot's own pages
http://f-spot.org/New_Features
Perhaps also using their "Contact Us" or their own forums might help get this functionality added in to FSpot sometimes. If the functionality is already there then perhaps thy could help access it more elegantly than the currently seems to be the only ways of doing this.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

I doubt this link is useful but it might be interesting
http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/software/bigview/

Hi Tom. Many thanks for the info on photoprint. Sorry for the delay in
ackknowledging your email. I followed the instructions and got
everything ok up to the final print. It all looked ok but just did not
print when I pressed 'print' !! Oops.

I did manage to print out what I wanted from an earlier suggestion so my
immediate goal was achieved. Thank you. I need to do some more reading
and thinking about all of this, so I will soon put on my 'thinking
cap' !!

NASA I think is just beyond me but it is fun to see what is out there.
Bit intimidating really but still fun though.

Thank you for your time and help. I will now address other questions
that I have on other aspects. Never boring is it? !

cheers Brian

On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 06:19 +0000, Tom wrote:
> Your question #78078 on f-spot in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/f-spot/+question/78078
>
> Tom posted a new comment:
> Hi :)
>
> Ok, i've found this guide. Near the bottom of the page might be helpful?
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Photos/Printing
>
> Also it looks like something worth adding to the wish-list at FSpot's own pages
> http://f-spot.org/New_Features
> Perhaps also using their "Contact Us" or their own forums might help get this functionality added in to FSpot sometimes. If the functionality is already there then perhaps thy could help access it more elegantly than the currently seems to be the only ways of doing this.
>
> Good luck and regards from
> Tom :)
>

Hi :)

Thanks for getting back to me about this and for marking this question as solved :) I just really like the idea of sending a few bug-reports off to NASA to help them develop their software :) heheheheheh

Sorry to hear the actual print part of that didn't work :( Glad to hear you got a work-around sorted out for the mean-time :)

Here's a link to help with posting new questions about things
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

Anyway, good luck and regards from
Tom :)