Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

I'd like to add some very faint (super light grey) text in a border area, below images that have wide white borders — a very faint copyright notice. I can do this with Qimage's freehand text placement but I'm having trouble seeing the area in question well enough for precise placement...Unless it's possible to enlarge the entire page image and I just haven't found the control for it.

I don't mean enlarge the image — but enlarge the entire page as seen in the main (queue) window or the editing window. That would make exact text placement much easier. Can it be done?

The full page editor that you are using to place the text is already considered the enlarged version (compared to the main live view).  There's no feature to zoom, etc.  What I would suggest is, place your text in black first and once you get everything aligned, right click on one of the blue dots next to a text label and change the font color to the light color you want and apply that to all labels.

Regards,
Mike

Thanks. It didn't occur to me until after posting the question — Windows' screen magnifier tool might be semi-useful in this situation. It's crude and perhaps there's some other freeware or shareware that does a better job, but the Win tool itself would probably do in a pinch. The mouse is tricky for that kind of fine movement but maybe I could set one of the Wacom stylus buttons temporarily to click-lock and get a bit more control that way.

This is yet another place where I use print preview as a final double check - mainly if I have multiple text areas on a page, but can use for even one.  You can easily magnify the print preview to see exactly the relationship between text and picture(s) or other text and then - if necessary - cancel the print and go back and slightly nudge the location of the text.

Meaning the preview provided via Soft Proof? If there's a magnification control for it I'm not seeing it yet. What I hope to magnify is the entire page, not just the image. The text in question would go just outside the image area and within the wide white margin.

No - I am talking about print preview that is a setting in the printer driver itself.  This is a standard tick box certainly in Epson drivers, and I think Canon as well. You get the preview on screen after it has been sent by Qimage to the driver. The preview shows you exactly what will print and you can then enlarge that and click Print or Cancel.

Ah, I see. In this case since I'm doing print-to-file for output to a Fuji Frontier device, I don't think I have access to that kind of preview.

I'm pursuing it from an enlarge-the-screen-with-software angle now — trying to find out which third-party tool for screen magnification might work best. Windows' own screen-magnifier tool does work but it's crude-ish and clumsy. (What? Something crude 'n' clumsy from Microsoft? Perish the thought.) One of the other freeware or shareware offerings out there will no doubt be better.