This is a doosey of a release... Qimage Ultimate 2014.200


Now templates are like your images, except for one thing, Templates are transparent.
With those facts, you can visualize many new creative possibilities.
You can place a template inside of a template inside of a template and make two borders per template plus two on the image itself...


This is another big addition.
If you are (example) making a greeting card, and you are placing the photos of the family and the dog, and you have text also, you can place all on a larger template, and the picture on another and the text on another.....
Then you can drag each template or the underneath template and position stuff and keep the spacing.
OK Card is all set?   Now save as a Job. 
St. Patrick day has passed. Make a card for April Fools day.
Recall that card job, and change the picture easily by dropping the new one over the old one in the queue, go into Page Editor and revise the text... all done.
Oh you want to move things around so they aren't all the same? Fine.
Drag a template and whatever is within it all move together.

There's also a nice change to the Print Property boxes for each thumbnail, and the main one to the right side of the screen.
I call them zebra buttons.
You can change the settings on a temporary basis or on a default (from now on) basis.
Try it. It's fun!

Fred

Hi Ernst,
I do not understand what your problem is because that is exactly what you can do by using the new version of templates. Think of it (heaven forbid) like a PS canvas underneath the main image. You make the template part white by giving it a large white border.
Add the template, fit to page or whatever size is needed and give it a border. In freehand mode add (drag) your image at the size required and position it accurately in the page editor. The arrow, shift or control keys, together with the actual dimension readout make this very easy & quick. Finally add your text.
One advantage of using this QU PRINT function is that the extra image you make is not required. Another advantage is that, for repeated print & border size combinations with text, you can make a Template for repeated use, a method that has long been a feature of QU.

Well, like many things people suggest for Qimage, there is a way to do this but not as you suggest. I'm pretty sure this could easily be done by making a Cutout to apply to the image. I think it would need to a "frame" type ut that is easily checked.

Terry

Terry, Fred, Mike,

Creating uneven borders is way too elaborate in the new feature, at least for my jobs and the simple extra signature white I need. I do not want to go the Freehand route with more images on a print page. More images happens all the time when you print with a wide format on media rolls. In September 2009 I mentioned my request again for a simple extra border feature, one that could add at least some extra white (or border color) at the bottom for a signature (and maybe add extra white at opposite borders to fit an existing frame size when the image aspect ratio does not fit with even borders). Someone else was also asking the same feature then, I have asked this simple addition more often. At the border settings this would be the best place to have that feature as it allows a metric or inch description of the extra border(s) width and then does not vary for the different sizes of a printed image.

With the crop tool extra white could be created if it allowed a crop beyond the image. Has to be done with pixel numbers but can be estimated. If too much I could cut the print a bit more within cut marks. Today I do that sometimes but then on three sides to get that uneven border at the bottom. Not as nice as the above solution and wasting more paper.

With the Cutout feature:  I have tried it there in the past with .frame and tried it again this morning. Made 2 add-signature.frame.tiff(s).  One with a square black window, one pixel white around and a white bar underneath. The other with a landscape black window and the rest identical. That solves it for portrait, square and landscape images. The white can be the 000, 000, 000, that does not matter for .frame if I want white = unprinted extra margin.
Slow processing. The extra white border varies in width depending on the size the image will be printed and its original number of pixels. Harder to estimate what the result will be. I could make some variations for different print sizes but the first solution would be much nicer and faster in my opinion.

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Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst

http://www.pigment-print.com/spectralplots/spectrumviz_1.htm
January 2014, 600+ inkjet media white spectral plots. [/list]

A message modification to get it across:

* Signature space: ... 15mm ... white ...

That is how I see that feature added to the other border features. The image edge to add it to; bottom and that based on the thumbnail. Without fixing that position for the lay-out on the print page, it should still be possible to have the auto-rotate working for best nesting.

Yes, it is possible to use template + image at the same size and shift one 15mm, do that for six other images on that page and shift the total template etc etc. But I like what I describe and still be able to center or optimal etc place the images on the print page or switch to a 36" roll width instead of 44" and not make a mess of the nesting. What I see in the uneven border feature now is a lay-out tool that is elaborate and sacrifices other print page features. It has its place but I will not use it.


Ernst

Hi,

I support the request of Ernst Dinkla. I would find it better.
A function add an extra border, better a signature area added at the bottom (or even selectable on the bottom, top, left or right edge)
would be very helpful.
The ultimate would be: add the image title (without the extension) automatically or manually (select the font and font size, the suffix: image title, author, datum ... ) and the selected (Tiff)-signature in the signature area (scalable).
Various settings (font size, font and Tiff_signatur) should be stored and loaded it if necessary.

The proposed method with six steps is cumbersome for many images.
A simple function "add a signature area" in the main menu, next to the Border function would be faster and better.

Thanks Wolfgang

It's already in there and works like a charm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpxXB6eWc0Q&feature=youtu.be&hd=1
See this video and position the image so that you have 4 different size borders.
or...

Use template on a template

Fred

silviuv,

Related to your messages.  Am I missing something?  I can't open your attachments.  Moreover, it seems that there is no content in either attachment.  Any help?