"Magazines and other full-page document formats are a different story: PDFs work well for those.  But again, why wouldn't you just use Acrobat which is designed for documents if you don't want to print photos but rather designed pages?"

Because Acrobat doesnt allow me to put 2 files next to each other on 1 sheet, or max the use of left over paper with ease.  I get around it by changing the document page and such on some things, but others you simply cannot without a fuss.

Sometimes I have multiple spreads running in multiple magazines, so I want to print 2 or 4 of them in one well spaced out print. SO QImage would have been a solution.

Also, I am often not sure of what ICC is being applied via just Acrobat and the Printer driver. Does it use ICC, No ICC, Etc...This stuff is more CLEAR on QImage , and why we have bought it, and suport it by paying for it every couple years or more.

I didn't realize its that hard to implement it. Acrobat is so old and the old engine PDF-X1A-2001 is still the standard, AND it is used by numerous free copies of Acrobat, as it is so old there are many alternatives.

Either way, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!!

_Magazines, calendars, press.  All documents, none of which have "photo quality" as a high concern."
Color accuracy is a big concern. And PDF's I print are usually SWOP/CMYK, so its always iffy if the printer will print it right using the ICC or its own. Setting it in the printer can be a issue at times.
Maybe something I should learn better to do.

QImage gives me more versatility in printing, and you mentioned in previous post, but Would a PDF file not allow for multiple PDF files to be printed together?

I have 2 different RIP softwares that  I use for work. At home I can afford the crazy $ it costs, but they do rasterize and mimic the press.

Most of my work goes to press, so its why I would find it helpful. Stay in one print app to manage all printing. I have a laser printer to manage "Documents"

I guess it maybe too much a hassle. Thought it would be worth asking, requesting, and most importantly understanding more. I think I got the gist of your reasoning, which I don't think should limit this file type. being so commonly used by art and designers, photographers. But everyone has their reasoning.

"no serious photographer is going to print or submit photographs via PDF"

ALL serious, pro, or what have you... or ANYONE who goes to print in a magazine, or calendar, or anything offset press, and that would be ALL work that gets work published get submitted to print in PDF format.

There is no if, and, or but about this.

If we want to see how our photos look like before we send it off, it only makes sense to see it in the format we submit the work in.

I would pay for an upgrade copy if it had PDF as a format able to print, regardless of how it limits my auto arranging.

PDF is a CARRIER, and the defacto standard in printing regardless if it is a photo or a document. If you take a file to any place that prints PDF is the standard. It also carries the ICC profile you save. It is an Adobe product, BUT so many open source versions created that it should not be as easy to support as jpeg or tiff. If he were asking to print Illustrator files, I would say he is asking something unique, or InDesign files, or any design making software(although, designs should be OK to print, and PDF is a standard for them to be converted to) I would say Mike is correct. No major gain by adding such. But PDF. Most Adobe files we save as PDF. All photography work that goes to large presses is done in PDF.

Having PDF would be adding more pool of buyers of Qimage no doubt.  I am sure it is available as a software printing engine to add to Qimage. that would be great!!

Yes, I am running a 64bit OS Windows 10.
So what could have caused the software to trip up like this?

Yes, its just 2 years old...Wadda ya think, it wore out?

We are saying the same thing...Its what I said above.
I was not aware of QImage not able to handle 608mb file sizes.
What is the size limit my version can handle? This should be info available.
Thanks

I had recently done an upgrade less than 2 years. It would be under the same payment method, but not necessarily under same registration info.
Maybe I am not using the new program/license?

As for the current issue of the file, it is 8bit TIF.
The TIF file says its 608MB, and Jpeg while closed is 59mb, and since it is based off the TIF, it opens to the TIF size of 608mb.

Does that mean my version cannot generate a thumbnail to work from on a 59mb file, nor a 600+mb size file?

I am all about supporting such businesses, but I have upgraded when I was more able to a number of times WHILE the SW sat idle not doing anything. Also I thought initially I had a life time license, and it now says I don't.  Now that I am wanting to use it maybe 2-5 times a month and with current tightening down all around, I need to rein in my hobbies and artistic projects....
So if an older version doesnt have such a bug or a issue in parsing data, I'll use it

There has been no upgrade to date older than 2 years back that has made a difference for my needs.  Other than perhaps broken things that needed fixing within the version anyway.

Let me see, file is... 21240x10020

Hi Mike,

Qimage Ultimate v2021.106.
Its not making the thumbs for larger sized TIF or JPEG.  Not in the thumbnail window and not in the print area window. I still sent the job to test, and it doesn't go to print.

Refresh, restart, rebuild have not worked.

It first happened on the TIF file. Came here and read that it is compression TIF. So I saved in JPEG, and still not working. its 42x90 inch print, so size was large...but that's the whole point.

I have already upgraded maybe 2 or 3 times in the past years, but hardly used the software. Now I am finally printing again.

Is there a fix for this?
Should I uninstall and re-install
Should I install an older version?

Thanks!!

I tried it...There was no way for me to confirm or know if that was "selected". But it continued to "print" the full 44 inches.

What I did is select all 3 5x7 images (they were dupes of the 1 image), and then I right clicked and selected the trim white option you showed me. It prompted if I want to do this, I said yes. But it didn't work.

Thanks Fred, I'll give that "trim white" a shot and see how it works!

So the printer properties doesn't allow me to create papers that are wider than they are longer.
So I purchased Qimage to help me print with some of HP's limitations.

I have a 44" printer that I often use to print page size or smaller images, and also some large ones on occasion.

I use 44" Roll paper most of the time.

I want to be able to load this, but for some reason the HP ignores the fact that it is a roll paper and forces me to answer the width AND length of the paper. Which I think is a software driver bug!
So since I do that, QImage sees it as 44x44" and so I print a 5x7 image oin this space, and the printer goes through the ENTIRE 44x44 space...Menaing the head and paper are still in action with no ink being output.

Why wouldn't QImage see the space that was actively printing/with ink and process that instead of the entire 44 inches of length?  I have to go in Cacel the job. reposition the paper to print the next job when it comes up.

Whats a better way I can use Qimage to manage my paper space?