Floating text floats away

studio2107

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« on: September 09, 2025, 08:02:44 PM »

I am having a problem with floating text moving as soon as it prints.
I lay out the print and floating text like I want it. I print the print and it prints just fine. As soon as the job has completed sending to the Canon Pro-2600 the floating text seems to have disappeared. Actually, it has moved to another place on the page.
I have included a link to several screen grabs below.
I have been using QI for several years it is the first time this has happened. Smiley

Thanks, Jason
https://www.machenphoto.com/QI


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Re: Floating text floats away

« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2025, 03:40:11 PM »

I tried repeating the problem but am not getting any shifting.

One thing I notice is that you have some pretty large custom margins defined. In your screenshot that shows the red template, I see a dot at the bottom middle that likely indicates your floating text. If that's where you put your floating text in your layout, it might cause a problem because even though the dot is at the bottom middle, that would put the text outside your margins and that could cause problems with the floating text.

Also, floating text that is linked to a print is linked relative to the top left corner of the print. Your template fills out the entire printable area given the margins but when you add your image, it is smaller (top to bottom) because of the aspect ratio. That can also cause problems if you are using crop off because the top left corner of the print changes relative to your layout after the print is resized to fit in your template.

You might just try an experiment. Instead of making those restrictive margins, change your print placement to Freehand and then just remove the margins and save a new layout that way. The template should stay at the same size and location but the text will be allowed to move relative to the print without being restricted by the margins.

Regards,
Mike


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Re: Floating text floats away

« Reply #2 on: Today at 03:23:50 PM »

Thank you that did seem to take care of the above issue. It seems I often go a backward way of trying to do things. I still have not quite reached my goal to create a template to do what I want it to do. I have attached link to a screen capture so perhaps you can advise me what I am doing wrong or if what I would like to do is impossible with QIU.
I am printing a number of images with different crop ratios using Canon Pro-2600, and 24 inch roll paper. The paper will be cut to 20x16 inch to frame. I am trying to automate having a fixed 2.125 paper border on the sides and variable border on the top. I am using a 0.13 gray border added to the image to simulate a beveled mat. I am putting the IPTC title data as floating text below the image. Ideally, I would like the title to be a fixed distance from the bottom edge of the image. As you can see from the video, I have everything worked out the way I want it except for the title. You can see as the images load the title only shows up (correctly) on the last image. Yes, all images have the title in the IPTC and they show up in other configurations of my attempts. I know I could have long been finished if I had simply done each image manually, but I wanted to take the power of QI to automate this task, which I could learn from and apply to other situations.
IF I do have to place the titles manually on each image is there a way to define a specific place such as centered underneath the image at a distance of 0.375.
PS I thought I found a work around, to add one image, add a page, add another image and so on. That works except now the font size changes from the template specified size (14). Please see the second video.
Thank you for your time and input.
Jason
Video 1 https://youtu.be/raPQ7gTT8jM
Video 2 https://youtu.be/RuIM5-ZJkbM


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Re: Floating text floats away

« Reply #3 on: Today at 08:24:53 PM »

Thanks. The videos help me follow the same steps.

Technically all of your floating text labels should be off the bottom of the page: because that's where you placed the label in your layout (dot at the very bottom margin of the page which places the text below it off the bottom). I've tried but I can't duplicate what you are seeing where one label is not off the page. For me, I get what I would expect which unfortunately is not what you want: even if I select many thumbnails and add them, all floating text labels are off the bottom of the page. I don't know how you got the result where the last label on the last page is not off the bottom.

I don't think you can do what you are intending to do because in the layout you have to place the text relative to the template and because you have crop turned off, the print size and location change when you add a non-square image.

I can get consistent results though. See attached. If you change your print size vertically to say 15.00 instead of 15.75 that gives you some room at the bottom where you can place the floating text label so it's not off the page. When I do this (as attached), all my IPTC titles are at the bottom of the page exactly where I put the dot. None of them are up by the bottom of the print.

Regards,
Mike


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