Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

Hi I have tried numerous times to reach you on an issue, to no avail I have sent emails from the cogeco.ca and the gmail.com domain and nothing.

Care to share the issue?
Fred

I haven't heard from you since August when I changed your email to the gmail address and resent the registration message to that gmail.  If you are having an issue with the software, feel free to post here.

Regards,
Mike

I am trying to create a calendar on a 11x17 page and the photo at the top is fine however on the calendar itself Sat and Sun are cut off I tried dragging the handles but they are still missing. I opened up the calendar in my photo viewer and it looks good. The file is a jpg and is high quality 800K in size and can be resized in Lightroom.  Also is there a way to reset everything back to the beginning as I don’t see a close command like other programs. I would also like to place a thin black border around the photo and the calendar but can’t see where to do that?

It looks like auto-crop may be turned on which will crop the image to make the print the exact size you selected.  You can click on the print (as you show it) and with the print selected, click on the "Prints" tab top right and on that tab, click the auto cropping button (scissors button near the bottom of that tab) to turn off auto-cropping.  The size of your print will be adjusted so that no cropping is performed.

To mark the edges of the print, you can click on the Printers and Settings tab and drop down "Cut Marks" and use something like "Solid Black Line".

Regards,
Mike

Yep that did it! Auto crop was on indeed, one last question a lot of calendars are in the pdf format but Qimage gives me a error on these?

Qimage is strictly for photo printing.  PDF is a document format that comes with its own formatting so it is not compatible with Qimage.  You could open the PDF in Photoshop and then use the Photoshop plugin to print it or convert the PDF to a TIFF, JPEG, etc. in a photo editor.

Regards,
Mike