Thanks Fred!

Since I thought not everybody would know IKEA's photo frames I included a quick snapshot done with my smartphone; you might know passepartout as 'mat' or 'mount'

As I am still on Studio, which serves my needs quite well, I post this question here though it might ultimately apply to Ultimate.

I have an IKEA frame RIBBA which will take a paper of the size 880 mm x 330 mm [there's a bit of leeway in both dimensions]. It comes with a premade passepartout featuring 5 cutouts. I want to print 5 photos onto a roll of paper [Epson 2100] such that I don't need to cut away between the pictures when positioning them in the frame under the passepartout.

The distance between the cutouts is 45 mm; obviously I can easily adjust overall height after the fact but need the four interimage distances to be precise. Is it possible with Studio - or Ultimate - to define the distance? Has anybody done something similar, i.e. for the 3-cutout RIBBA?

Let's put this into perspective by using a simile:

Adobe offers Photoshop and then comes up with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom [official name!], now, are former [legal] Adobe Photoshop users entitled to a special offer of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom? Actually, are they entitled to get any other major Adobe product cheaper or even for free?*

Instead of wasting ones own - oh so precious time - complaining about a reasonable marketing decision by a company one could give the software a test run, then decide if one wants or needs it. How much is the initial licence fee for QIU in working hours, three quarters, one, one and a half?


*On a side note, I am even unable to upgrade from, say, Creative Suite 3 Premium to Photoshop for an upgrade price if I don't need/want to upgrade all the other products in the Premium Suite.

Two things, one practical, one hint.

a) Print the text first, the image later to avoid damage to it.
b) Did you consider making a folding card with the image on page 1 and the text on a separate piece of tracing paper, which can be printed via a laser printer?

Mike, I wrote up a quick PR-note in German using your two screen grabs. Guess you don't mind.

1. Open the Web site for the forum
2. Click on Home [to be shown as signed in]
3. Visit any forum with new messages [probably read something; usually I do]
4. Go back to forum frontpage using the navigational features of the browser [Back button; with Opera I use a mouse gesture or Backspace key]
4a. Scroll down and click Mark All Read [optional]
4b. Same as step 4 to return from the error message page [optional; depending on 4a]
5. Reload forum frontpage
6. Click Mark All Read [this time it works]

Not but I faintly remember using IE [8] once to check the behaviour out, and it was the same. Nevertheless, while it is slightly annoying, it works by way of the very simple work-around, thus, IE is out of the question for me. This is not for some anti-MS notion, just that IE takes a long time to load, is very slow, and all in all a drag; it takes much longer and is much more annoying than this strange forum behaviour.

Not really using a cookie monster. With Opera I usually set the browser to accept cookies only from the site I visit; this tends to give problems if different domains are used within a site, in which case I change to accept all cookies. I set this for ddisoftware.com yesterday and tried it a few times. Doesn't work. Can't do more than simply accept anything thrown at me ...

Since a simple reload of the page helps to overcome the session verification prob, I am not so sure cookies have anything to do with it [though they have to do with the not shown logged-in phenomenon].

By coincidence I realised I do not need to delete the second session cookie, it is enough to do a reload of the forum home page. Still, would be nice if this issue and the 'not being shown logged in when coming here' thing could be tackled successfully.

Sadly a second session cookie is set over and over again because of the loading problem. That is, when we hit the Home button to have us shown logged in, the forum software sets a cookie - or the cookie is set when we go to the forum page, before we hit Home.

Ah, misunderstanding. I did that, was thinking of some visual help, say, guidelines from/to the rulers.

I have actually been using the full page editor; didn't find a way to measure the dividers. Thus I went by defining the edges [easy for the center piece].

First, the frame used:



Here are the relevant measurements [metric]:

frame [inside] - 231 x 502 mm
passe-partout cut-out - 120 x 170 mm
border between images - 33 mm
border left/right - 35 mm

I created a template using an A3+ sheet, which fits under the full passepartout though it will not cover the complete length, only 483 mm. Onto that sheet I put 3 templates [120 x 170 mm each], centered the middle one, set the other two such that they are 25,5 mm from their respective sides, centred top-bottom. Then saved the whole job to later replace the three templates by actual images.

Before doing a test print, did I miss anything, is my template sound? Any other ideas I should pursue, particularly when creating one for the 5-er RIBBA?

D'uh, corrupted cookie, actually two cookies, one left from before registering, the proper one from after.

Still some bumps ...

Whenever I click 'Mark All Messages Read' I get an error message page telling me that the 'Session Verification' failed.

A really interesting one, very versatile, is Geosetter, which uses EXIFTool by Phil Harvey to write data back to files. The UI is very well done, and with integration of Geonames.org services it helps a lot to tag your photos geocoordinates and field names.