Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

This may have been covered somewhere, but I could not find it, so here is my question.

When printing a number of images (for an exposition), I created a job with 12 images. All of these have to be printed 200x200 mm with an inner border of 5 mm. 2 images on 1 A-3 sized sheet. All went well and I saved the job.

Next I recalled the job and wanted to add some images to the job. Until very recently, these new images were added to the end of the job, therefore leaving alone the order of the images in this job as it was until then. But in some peculiar way, new images are now inserted at a somewhat random place/order into the existing job. Somewhere between the already present images or at the very beginning of the job, some at the end. As a result: each of the A3 pages now contains other images then before. So before adding the new images: images A and B would be on page 1, images C and D on page 2 of the job and so on. After adding the new images page 1 now has image Z and A, page 2 has B and C. In other words: all pages changed.

Am I missing some hidden feature? Is there a way to manually change the order of images in a job?

I just experimented and find that with certain placement selections, Qimage might be trying to save you paper usage by replacing  item fitting to a page. There us probably a better way, but I added images and re saved the Job immediately Mike will probably have a better answer.
Fred

There are two things that can cause images to be placed in a position other than the end of the job:

(1) If you have sorting turned on.  Sorting is an option in all of the "Intelli" placement methods: there is a sort button under the live view so make sure that button is turned off.

(2) You have empty slots (templates) in the job.  If you don't fill all the templates and you have an empty one on, for example, page 3, when you click the "+" on a thumbnail, it will fill all empty templates first.  You can go through all the pages to make sure you don't have empty templates.  If images get moved or deleted, it could actually be creating empty templates in the middle of the job.

Regards,
Mike

Thank you for the quick replies.

The sorting button did the trick. I wasn't even aware of that button. :-[

I apologize. I knew the problem was in auto sorting, but forgot about that ON/OFF button. Getting Old.

Fred