[hardy] F-Spot can't adjust paper size and ignores printer setting

The version in intrepid does allow the target paper size to be changed via a tab in the print dialog, but this setting is not honoured when I print. Changing the printing size in the printing admin applet does work in intrepid only. Still, I'd like to keep this PC running an LTS release if at all possible.

I also can't get anything to print correctly from F-Spot.

I just brought home an HP Photosmart C3180. I have tried all option combinations I can imagine under F-Spot and the print config dialog and I get the exact behaviour you describe above. The printer first refuses to print because it doesn't believe the paper is the correct size. When I override this warning I get a corner printed with the rest of the image cropped off. It's as if the image hasn't been scaled down to fit.

I have successfully printed using the HPLIP gui tool although this has scaled keeping the aspect ratio correct and this has resulted in white margins top and bottom. I intend to see if I can resolve this but even if I can using the HPLIP tool is a pretty horrible workaround for printing photos.

This is using Hardy, I haven't tested Intrepid but the post above suggests that won't help.

The people on this thread seem to be suffering the same problem

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5871839

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

I've now upgraded to Intrepid where it is possible to print to a smaller size sheet. However, the process is clunky. The PC in question belongs to my mum and it's too complicated for her to use (and hence broken as far as she's concerned). To justify my comment, printing to a 6x4 piece of photo paper in photo quality mode (an obvious thing to want to do in a photo program!) requires many steps that have to be done in order before every print (or at least once per session):
 - Go to Photo menu (unfamiliar, when every other program my mum's ever used calls this menu "File").
 - Select "Page setup"
 - Select the specific printer.
 - Select the paper size. <- missing this step results in printing an A4 page onto 6x4! Why can't it just do the right thing??
 - Click Apply.
 - Select the photos you want to print.
 - Go to the Photo menu.
 - Select print.
 - Select the specific printer.
 - Select advanced tab.
 - Select print quality.
 - Select page setup tab.
 - Select paper type.
For my mum, selecting the papersize and quality isn't easy, but having to select the papersize and printer twice in two separate dialog boxes is terrible.

I think for photo printing a wizard approach would be a lot easier. Why not ask just a few questions like
 - Which printer would you like to use?
 - What size of paper? (with a list including all common sizes)
 - What quality?
 - How many photos per sheet? (with thumbnail previews to click on)

Seems to be the same in Jaunty as well.

Thanks for your report, that's something to send directly upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org by experiencing the issue, for forwarding instructions please read http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME, Thanks in advance.

Thanks for sent it upstream.