Hi,

I think there's a problem with the way drag and drop resizing is working. It should work according to the value of the Center print placement option. For example, for a single image, if I have selected Center, the dotted image frame showing the effect of resizing when dragging and dropping should extend in both directions from the center. The dotted frame should always remain centered if the image is centered. This would allow me to see, when the rulers are visible, what will be the actual value of the margins after resizing. For the kind of job I'm doing, I'm more margin-oriented rather than being image size-oriented.

The way the drag and drop resizing currently works forces me to calculate what the image size should according to the margins I want.

Thanks.

Fred,

Thanks for the details and for your time.

However, this is not what I'd like to have.

1. The margin fields are not updated while I'm dragging with the mouse. I'd like to release the mouse button when I see that I have reached the desired value for the top or left margin (assuming the image will remain centered). The value indicated in the ruler for the margin is wrong because it will be changed once I have released the mouse button.

2. Assuming I want the top (and bottom) margin to be say, 20 mm, if I enter say, 20 mm in the top margin field the image will no longer be centered (although the Placement field in the Document area still - wrongly - indicates "Center"). Same for the bottom margin field. If I click on Center, the values I entered for the top or bottom margin are disregarded. I think this is not consistent. Since I specified that I wanted a centered image, if I enter a value for the top margin, it is assumed that the bottom margin should be the same. So the image should be zoomed in or out accordingly, keeping the image centered.

The behavior of the Print module in Lightroom is much more consistent regarding this point.

If that's the case a different approach is required - there's always more than one way to "skin a cat" in Qimage  

What I suggest is you set the margins to the size required in the Page Formatting menu. You can access this quickly using the Menu Cheater icon.
Use "Fit to Page" and crop scissors on to fill the printable area; you may then find the image is cropped due to aspect ratio differences.
See screen shot attached below.
1. Page margins menu with additional margins set
2. Page preview showing reduced printable area
3. Page Editor showing total margins & print size
4. Image crop in this example

Terry

Thanks very much. I'll give this approach a try.

Good idea. Thanks.