Printing Your Custom GIMP Holiday Cards

“You’ve made your holiday cards with GIMP — and now you’re
ready to print them on paper. What’s the best way? Should you do it
on your own inkjet printer at home, or farm the work out to someone
else?

“Get the image ready for printing

“You may remember in the previous article that you sized your
image to fit on half of a letter-sized page (A4 if you’re outside
the US).

“Your image will go on the bottom half of the page, or the right
half if you’ve used a vertical image. In theory, you could do this
by setting sizes and offsets in GIMP’s print dialog. But that’s
tricky in practice and it’s easy to go wrong. Instead, convert your
image to a full page before printing.

“For that, use GIMP’s Image->Canvas Size to double the height
without changing the width (assuming a horizontal image like my
example).”

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