If I read you right, you only need to add a check in the Print Box where it says RIP  see attached screen snap.
That will remove all the white around the3 new print. No cropping



Fred

That's normal..
Will check on Username issue
Fred

Hi Terry,

thanks for your inspiring post. Please let me give you more of my thoughts:

I've been thinking of "Print To File" as a tool to use when I can't or don't want to print right now, but want to prepare the exact pixels rendering and layout for a specific output media. Something like deferred printing.

The mats, however, are more a creative pixel changing thing. Like for e-mailing a copy, or saving for the web. That way mats are more related to the images in the queue than to the layout of (multiple) images on a page. The latter is the domain of "Print To File".

In that way, a mat is more like a stamp or a cutout filter. The difference is that it does not chance the pixels inside the image. It changes what's around.

That's why I'd like to have it in both "Convert Images" and "Create E-Mail/Web Size Copies". And that's why I thought of "Print To File" being a workaround.

The use case you describe makes perfectly sense. But your're thinking more of "a single image" workflow. (With a beautiful result, I must say!) I was thinking of processing a queue with lots of images of different sizes. Usually a strength of Qimage.

Another remark: With the "shrink" option, you change the aspect ratio when adding borders of different size. In your case, cropping might not be a problem. But in mine I want to avoid it: The pixels of the image should remain unchanged. Just add mats around them.

And a wish in the end: Would be great to define mats and apply them to multiple image.

Terry,
As long as you are on the same computer, and all the data and software is in place, and the printer is accessible from this computer, saving jobs is great. In other cases, you might be better off with "Print To File".