Thanks Terry,

But I tried every combination of page orientation, dimension orientation, made it square and tried to remove white space. Unless I have missed something I don't think it works the way I ask of it.

Lynn

Maybe I need to elaborate a bit more, I suppose the main catalyst for this comes from a job on last week where there were 25 5x7 photos, each with a title box beneath and a 1100 x 800 mat size. It took no more that 90 seconds to design the mat template. Keep in mind that each image placement needs to be at least 5mm overall larger than the mat window. After cutting,printing, cutting, printing, cutting to a frustrating level I eventually sorted it but it was a wasteful and time consuming exercise. Still better that individually lining up and securing 50 individual items in a frame and needing 4 of them! If I could have used the same file (layout) for both or lined both print and mat files by their centres it would have been a whole lot easier. Believe me I utilised my very best math, an accurate steel rule and a magnifying glass but still had the compounding effect of small incremental inaccuracies turning into a white line exposed down at the end of the line print.
I don't know how many photographers do what I do with framing like this but I do know that many framers are doing there own printing and from my experience with the Qimage software there is nothing that comes close so maybe there is function that could be covered.

Lynn

Hello Mike,
I use templates regularly for repetitive jobs, printing multiple images to one sheet of paper to frame under mats cut by our Gunnar mat cutter to matching mat templates. I'll ask more about that later. The problem I have at this point is trying to print one of those templates, with images to file. If I do the print to file thing, then use current printer stats and printer for file format it flips the paper orientation 90 degrees, and no matter what I try cannot get it stay fomatted as it should be as I had originally set it up. I am using Qimage Ultimate on Windows XP pro, on a Macpro with VMware Fusion.

My other question relates to the relationship between my mat cutter and your software, both of which make my job very easy as they are a wonderfully productive combination. As it is I design either the print layout and print it, or the mat and cut it, then physically measure up and input into the opposite required print layout or mat. Although I have got fairly competent doing this it would be nice to be able to export out a qimage template to the mat cutter software and avoid the mismatches I currently get. So my question is - is it possible to export a template in a format that Corel draw would accept, as I know I can import from Corel into the Gunnar software? I will have an opportunity to speak to the Gunnar people at the Aus PMA in Sydney in a few weeks time.
If this approach is not doable can I suggest a very handy feature for the positioning of images/templates on the edit page function would be the ability to arrange and place the images/templates centres as well as border distances. That would be a big plus for my purposes.
And while I'm at it, a multiple copy/paste would be handy. It would be possible to then make one arrangement and then place as many copies as requires on a roll sheet. This is the sort of layout we use frequently  http://www.goldfieldsimageworks.com.au/sample-racng-frame.htm

Thanks for your attention.
Lynn
Western Australia

I am considering a slightly used 4800 simply for the sheet feed function and providing flat prints instead of the curly ones from our 7800/9800's using roll paper. I would like some advise as to wether it is a case of just loading a stack of precut 6x4, 5x7 or whatever and I can put them through with a border from qimage and I don't need to trim them after?

Lynn

Hello Mike,

"File", "Open Automated Job Log". This is the only way I have ever accessed the auto job log. So I don't expect that the glitch is here.

Lynn

Tahnks Terry,

I had checked that and it was set on "keep last 100 jobs". I flicked it onto "keep all" to see if that fires it up.

Lynn

Just as the title says, went back for a job and found that the last week or so are not there, went into the log folder and unchecked read only but has made no difference - did not record after that either.

Lynn