[SOLVED] Slackware64-current: GIMP can't do Print Preview
by ljb643 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5CZ35)
GIMP 2.10.22 on Slackware64-current is unable to do Print Preview. There is no visible error message and nothing happens. In a terminal window or ~/.xsession-errors you will see a usage message from xpdf.
I determined that GIMP is doing Print Preview by trying to run 'xpdf -q /tmp/FILE.pdf'. However, the -q option was removed from xpdf between version 3.04 in Slackware-14.2 and version 4.02 in Slackware64-current. So it doesn't work.
But that's as far as I got. I read in the Gtk+3 documentation that the default Gtk+3 print preview command uses evince, not xpdf. So either this was changed somehow in Slackware, or GIMP isn't using Gtk+3 to do print preview.
There really should be a wrapper script between GIMP and xpdf anyway, so that the temporary file can be deleted after viewing. That's what I did in GIMP-2.8.x on Slackware-14.2, using a setting in ~/.gtkrc-2.0. But I can't figure out how to do this in Gtk+3 - or if it would work with GIMP.
Any ideas?
I determined that GIMP is doing Print Preview by trying to run 'xpdf -q /tmp/FILE.pdf'. However, the -q option was removed from xpdf between version 3.04 in Slackware-14.2 and version 4.02 in Slackware64-current. So it doesn't work.
But that's as far as I got. I read in the Gtk+3 documentation that the default Gtk+3 print preview command uses evince, not xpdf. So either this was changed somehow in Slackware, or GIMP isn't using Gtk+3 to do print preview.
There really should be a wrapper script between GIMP and xpdf anyway, so that the temporary file can be deleted after viewing. That's what I did in GIMP-2.8.x on Slackware-14.2, using a setting in ~/.gtkrc-2.0. But I can't figure out how to do this in Gtk+3 - or if it would work with GIMP.
Any ideas?