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1  Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate Wish List / Menu Cheater add File-Purge Sheets on: February 05, 2024, 09:44:57 PM
Better yet an icon up top - there is tons of room.

Love the product.

-gerry
2  Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: We lost one of the best! on: August 06, 2023, 05:36:43 PM
Fred has always been helpful, with a great aptitude for listening and understanding.

He will be missed by so many.

-og
3  Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Need Help/Questions on: February 07, 2023, 12:46:52 AM
Q #1: Is there somewhere that shows how many are active in the forum? In a particular category?


If you click on the user tally at the bottom of the main page, you will get a complete list of individual users and what activity they are doing currently.

Sure are a lot of guests today!
4  Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: RFP (request for proposal) Printing of PDFs on: August 31, 2022, 12:14:22 AM
There are free online converters to convert from a pdf to, say tiff or jpeg.

Then you can print directly with Qimage.

Just do a web search for "convert pdf to tiff"
5  Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate Wish List / Re: Fitting image to paper with different aspect ratios on: August 10, 2022, 12:59:12 PM
That is helpful, thanks.

My problems started when I selected "Fit to Page" in the driver, as I have done prior to using Qimage, as opposed to using the Qimage menu.

I think I have it sorted out now.
6  Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate Wish List / Re: Fitting image to paper with different aspect ratios on: August 09, 2022, 12:40:32 AM
Well here is what I found:

First I selected "Fit to Page" in the Driver Properties.
That does not work.  Picture gets cropped, with or without AI "Prevent Sizing Conflicts" enabled.

Then I tried "Fit to Paper" in the Prints tab of Qimage, which to me seemed like a more logical choice.
That does not work.  Picture gets cropped

Then I chose "Fit to Page" in the Prints tab and I get what I want.  The entire image fills the available printing area.

NOW:   I opened the AI dialog just to look at the settings, and then closed it without making any changes, and the image was cropped again, and no settings will get it to where I want.

I was using the image "Test Collage.tif" from José's files on his Facebook page.

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UPDATE:  I closed Qimage, and re-opened it, dragged in the image and BOTH Fit to Paper and Pit to Page on the Qimage menu fit the page without cropping.  Something weird is going on or I am losing my mind.

7  Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate Wish List / Fitting image to paper with different aspect ratios on: August 08, 2022, 11:00:53 PM
As posted on José Rodriguez's Facebook page at Mike's Caney's suggestion:

Qimage-Ultimate 2023-100 and fitting image to paper with different aspect ratios

Often when putting an image onto a paper with a different aspect ration part of the image gets cropped slightly in a peripheral area, and sometimes that part of the image is critical.

Simple resizing, really, to fit a complete image into the printable area of the paper.

I was hoping that the 2023 version of Qimage-Ultimate might resolve this, but apparently not.

So here's my question:

If we know the horizontal and vertical sizes of the image, if we know the H&V sizes of the paper, if we know the H&V border sizes, and we if know the H&V sizes of unprintable margins, why can't a calculation be done to automatically fit the complete image into the available print space, notwithstanding the resulting H&V margins will likely be of different sizes (I can mask in a frame or trim the paper to deal with this)?

The same question applies to automatic centering not giving equal margin sizes, notwithstanding the paper feed mechanism may be off a millimeter or so (I find this to be almost imperceptible on my Pro-100, it does a great job).
If I can do these calculations, and I can, why can't they be applied to the printer settings by some macro or command in the software?

That was my question on José's Aug 7 livestream, but everyone seemed to get sidetracked and fixated on my 4X6 example.  This should work with any size image and paper.  Note none of the solutions proposed on the livestream worked for me with QImage-2023-100, although I could achieve this by disabling the AI and changing some settings in the print driver.
I notice questions of fitting images to paper and centering with equal margins appear quite often and I have other friendly users expressing the same issues to me. I really find the response "why do you want to do this" unhelpful so please don't ask me that.

Qimage-U 2023-100 is a great product and I like its many features, and I am hoping as a printing utility this issue could be addressed with a click of a "fit to-page" button that does what it says.



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