Gwenview Photo

[mikkh]

I don't do much printing of photos, so when someone asked for a favour I initially tried in Windows because I was in it at the time. The built in photo displayer/printer is pretty basic and lacking in options and useless for what I wanted to do - print multiple photos on the same page. I went looking for free options and didn't find anything useful.

I was pretty sure Linux would have the answer, so I stopped wasting my time in Windows and rebooted into PClinuxOS

A quick bit of research on Google and Gwenview was mentioned as one solution and it works really well with a myriad of options that Adobe would be quite happy to take £70 off you for

Create photo layouts, calendars, slide shows, stitch photos into a panorama, batch processing, red eye removal and all sorts of fancy tricks for professional photographers

There was a time when looking for an alternative to a Windows program was a bit hit and miss in Linux, but now, and it's been that way for several years, there's literally nothing that hasn't got a more than adequate replacement. Gwenview is a top notch program the programmers should be really proud of

[vikingken]

I use Publisher, but I expect you can do the same thing with Open Offce. I use either A3 orA4 in landscape, depending on how many photos I want to print. I devide the page with columns and rows, to the size I want my pictures to be. If I am printing several pages, I simply change the pictures after printing a page. If you want to save the pages, you can and then change the pictures. I usually print A6 size on A3 pages, but you can always stick the odd A5 or even A4 on the same page. You have to turn the A5s on their side to fit them in, but its an easy enough job. I print A3, 4, 5 and 6 nomally, but you can use columns and rows to make them any size you like.

[jojo]

It looks like a nice idea really.

I recall a time when there were numerous small routines available to do these little jobs, for Windows. Most were little bits of script written by students for their courses. They tended to post them in the hope of being noticed, presumably, by a large company.

I currently have quite a number of nifty little routines on my XP drive. Many do very impressive manipulation of photos for example. Sadly, they either won't run at all on W7 or do so very poorly. Pleased to say, my copy of PhotoImpact 3.1 does seem to work, mostly.

With so many programs now specifically refusing to run on XP, I find myself increasingly using W7. I naturally switch back when I need to do those jobs, but it is a hassle to be changing OSs, made worse by the occasional unpredictability, generally cause by some update which doesn't work.

I suppose this is yet another good reason to look positively on Linux.

Sadly, while there are an increasing number of good things about Linux, the essential problems remain unresolved.

There is little or no meaningful support. What their is is contradictory, inaccurate and offensensive.

Linus continues on its hell bent path of incompatibility.

Still interesting to know what is happening on the dark side.

[elvis]

I have just downloaded Gwenview & i will give it a try over the next few weeks as i will have a Photo sesson on Saturday 9th May 15 so i will let you no what i think

Thanks Mikkh