Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

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v2013.125    06/26/13

Priority: Low

v2013.125 includes the following:

• Instaview improvement: Instaview no longer interferes while dragging to size prints on the preview page.
• Print spooler job date: Date format in Windows spooler job name changed to YYYY/MM/DD to match saved print job name.
• Registration completion: Fixed registration completion not sticking on systems using Japanese and other Unicode languages.
• Purchasing options: Link to renew expired registrations plus special offers from the "Help" menu.

Mike

Don't know if this is a bug in this version.

Scenario:

Paper: 13x19 set in portrait mode. (Canon 9000 II & Windows 8-64, fwiw.)
Images:  Loaded four 5x7 images onto the above page.  All in portrait mode as well, except for one that showed up being 90 degrees rotated CCW. (I had "Info" displayed as well for ID purposes.)

When I selected the image that was 90 degrees rotated and tried to straighten it in the Preview pane, I selected "Rotate 90 degrees," and it flipped it 180 degrees!  When I selected "Rotate as thumbnail," it rotated the 90 degrees and appeared correctly.  ???

Seemed odd that selecting 90 degrees rotated it 180 degrees, and Rotating as thumbnail was the wished for 90 degrees?  I would think rotating 90 degrees should have done the trick and not the 180 it did?


Aside, at least I could re-size the four images too on the Preview pane without the Instaview popping up so soon in this version and often nixing that idea.  :)


Mack

Hi Mack,
The rotation choices in the right click menu are all relative to the thumbnail, not as the image appears on the preview.
So, if your thumbnail is showing as portrait and you select "0 (Same as thumbnail)" the preview will rotate to portrait.
If you select "90 (Thumbnail Rotated right)" then the image on the preview will appear to be flipped 180 degrees.
"I does what it says on the tin"  ;) - it's all relative to thumbnail.
In the situation you describe, I suggest you set the Image lock "ON", the padlock icon below the preview. Then images on the page will always match the thumb orientation. I leave it on most of the time.
Terry

Hi Mack.

See screen snap.
Just lock the orientation of the image Set the print size to 5 x 7, info on.
Add the 4 images.

Fred

Mike
Thanks for fixing the registration issue on Japanese systems. The program now opens normally. ;D
Nissin

Suggestion box:

Is there some way to incorporate a printer's "Nozzle Check Pattern" into QU?  That area in some of the printers is hard to find.  Maybe a bunch of simple boxes of the various colors and looking for banding of a blocked nozzle?

Profiling one with a blocked nozzle just gave me reasons to redo a series of paper profiles.  Had to do the ammonia/water soak with a head and the old profiles are now off.  ugh!  :(

Aside, I just counted 5 Canon printer icons (Which one does the nozzle check stuff is another matter!) on my Windows 8 desktop.  Not one Epson printer icon appears on the desktop even though I have two Epson's.  I have to drill down into the Control Panel or Program Folders to find the Epson software and search their nozzle check.  Silly Windows 8 doesn't make it easy.


Mack

Have you checked if you have the latest driver for W8?
Epson icon is usually set from Printer Preferences, Maintenance Tab, Speed & Progress button, Monitoring Preferences. There you can tick for a shortcut icon. This appears in the "system tray notification area" with W7. I don't know about W8.
Terry

Have you looked in Print Page set up in Qimage?
When the properties screen comes up, click Maintenance.
That's the way I always do it.

Fred

This might be a "stuck bug" as it happened on both a Windows XP-32 and a Windows 8-64 today.

If I put an image in the right que window, hold down mouse button until the gray Instaview bar loader completes, right click and select the Image Examiner (large one), scroll around in it a while, exit by hitting the X in the upper right, then the image that was in the right pane becomes unresponsive? Cannot click and enter Editor, nor hitting the the paper size icon nor the red cancel/remove image icon within the image works at all.  Image is just stuck?  I can exit the program via the top toolbar and restart, and then the buttons in the right pane image again work and I can get into the Editor too.


Mack

Hi mack,
I can reproduce the problem in W7 too  :(
Terry

Terry,
Did Mack try to break Qimage Ultimate again?
We have to find a way to stop this sabotage.... how about chewing gum under his mouse!!
Fred

Hey now!  Better put some gum under Terry's mouse too if his QU stuck on him with W7.  ;)

Instaview must have an odd bit of "hang-up & get stuck" code written into it.  I seem to have had it hang like that before causing me Exit issues (and maybe some Restart issues too? (i.e. That "Restore default" or "Not" on rebooting QU I've had.), just that it happened on two computers in one day, a W8-64 and old Windows XP-32 and was repeatable once I did the same thing and it hung up on both, so I suspect something is wonky someplace in the code.

If it happens to Terry in W7, I vote "Bug found" and not chewing gum.  Lint ball in the mouse maybe, but no gum here.

Mack

It happened here too., and has been reported to the "trouble-shooting" department of Qimage.
Fixed in the next version, and a thanks from Mike.

Fred