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Author Topic: A couple of feature requests  (Read 3420 times)
MrPunch
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« on: November 08, 2018, 02:36:29 PM »

1) It would be incredibly useful to be able to use scaling percentages in the Custom Print Size bit.

2) Is there a way to change the default location Qimage goes to for color profiles? I keep mine on a networked server and it's a time-consuming slog to get to the relevant folder to add a new profile. I realise I'm in a tiny minority who'd find this useful, but I can't see any editable .ini files.

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« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2018, 02:58:19 PM »

#2 should be easy enough.  Regarding #1, can you give an example of how (and why) you would use it?  Are you talking about entering a number like +10% or -10% to scale an existing print on the page?  I'm trying to figure out under what circumstances that would be useful so I can see how such a feature would be implemented.

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Mike
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« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2018, 02:59:16 PM »

Mr P,

The boys can sort you out with the second request I am sure. I prepare pages for printing on one PC and do the actual print on a second one. I'll let the gurus explain when they spot your message. I'm saving 'sessions' but I am pretty sure you can save all the profiles. What I'm doing is to keep all my QU work on an external HDD which I carry from one location to another.

Over to the professors.

Oh - I see Mike has already spotted you....

Tony

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« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2018, 11:28:56 AM »

#2 should be easy enough.  Regarding #1, can you give an example of how (and why) you would use it?  Are you talking about entering a number like +10% or -10% to scale an existing print on the page?  I'm trying to figure out under what circumstances that would be useful so I can see how such a feature would be implemented.

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Mike
I'm working in a commercial environment so we print a lot of stuff that gets thrown at us by customers. A typical scenario would be a request for A5 prints from a file sized at A4 or A3, and we knoiw that we just have to enter 70.7% or 50% to get the right size. Another would be where we have a customer's file set up to print at a specific size, but they decide they want it 'half as big again' (so 150%).

So it's the absolute percentage that I'd find useful, not (e.g.) '10% reduction' (I'd put in 90% for that).

It is sometimes useful to be able to enter different % for width and height, for example if we have an image that needs to fit a 20"x16" frame, is 20x15.5 and won't stand cropping, but can be stretched slightly.

Having recently bought the Photoshop plugin I can do this kind of thing much faster now, but if I had, say, 20 images that all need the same % change it could get tedious.
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« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2018, 08:16:32 PM »

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and we know that we just have to enter 70.7% or 50% to get the right size
In QU, you set the actual size in inched (or mm), you know what the dimension are then for any situation.
Standard sizes like A5 etc. can be saved and picked from the the Prints tab.
That is the QU way; in my view messing with percentages, like you may have to do in other software, is prone to error and it's far more logical to set dimensions in Ins or mm.
Terry
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