The message 20050630201420.GA8048@areti.co.uk from Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk contains these words:
I have some GIF and JPG files (they're maps of wine producing areas in France) that I want to print. What's the easiest application to use to do this? All I want is for the image to be scaled to the best size to fit a sheet of A4 paper, no other manipulation is required.
When I just opened the file from the xfce file manager using the default application it opened with ImageMagick, it looked perfect on screen but when I selected print the printout was displaced so that only half of it was printed. The orientation was right, it was just shifted down. I couldn't find any way to set up the printout in ImageMagick. I'm not even sure what sort of ImageMagick is being invoked - almost as bad as Windows!
Then I tried opening the file with the Gimp and printing it, even more disastrous, the Gimp did its own thing and simply sent Postscript to the printer and thus produced nothing useful at all except lots of wasted paper. My printers seem to be set up right for everything else on my Linux box, why did the Gimp not get that right?
Most graphics programs these days have a similar layout to functions: look at 'Image' on the toolbar and there should be a 'Resize' option.
With some printers there's a preview option, and the chance of altering the margins to expand or compress the picture. (I can do that with my Epson Stylus Color 600, for instance, but I couldn't give you an off-the-cuff resumé of all the steps, but you will want to chose 'Properties' and 'Advanced' options, or whatever corresponds with those 9n your printer.)