Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

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v2018.113     Jan 17, 2018

Priority: Med

2018.113 includes:

Print cropping: New "Crop Print(s)" tool on right click menu of the live view allows adjustment of print crops from the main UI window.
Disk usage: New "Manage Disk Usage" tool under "Utilities" on the main UI menu lets you see/manage disk space used by temp files.
User interface: Various UI improvements and fixes.

Mike

Can we please have a more obvious auto cropping button showing it is OFF or ON?

Currently there's just the handle of the scissors colored in blue to indicate auto crop it ON. I would like to see something really explicit and obvious so that when I'm printing when I"m tired I won't miss it.

My suggestion would be to have that button totally colored - not just the scissors. Say a bright thick (it has to be thick) luminous green border around the auto crop button when it's ON.

Hi Mike,

New to the forum but have been using QU for the last 6 years and love it.
The last update has QU not recognizing my printer Z3200 for the maintenance prints (says printer selected is invalid). Not a real big deal but I do like this feature. Any suggestions?
All other printing tasks seem fine.

Mike Scherlacher

You've been hit with the Win10 bug.  The last three Windows 10 updates have a bug that affects some printer drivers, most notably the Z3200 and Canon Pro-2000 (on certain systems).  The bug causes Windows to "lose contact" with the driver if some features in the driver are used.  MS's response was that they were aware of the printer/driver bugs and hope to have it fixed by the end of this month.

Regards,
Mike

Sir,

With an image in the queue, Crop off has green corner squares on a selected image.
With Crop On, RED corner squares on selected images.

No image in queue, crop off has tiny squares in the pattern of the sample page. Crop on has only diagonal lines, no squares.

The red squares / green squares are a big help, and when you get used to it..... becomes automatic.


If you are in the Page Editor, there is no scissor icon. You turn crop on and off from the Right Click menu.
That's when the red/gree squares come in handy again/

Hope this helps

Fred

The button to access the image rotation on the preview page has disappeared. How do I rotate the images in the page now. So far I have not found it.

The two blue rotate print icons are now located at the bottom of the PRINT VIEW SCREEN.  Just click the prints tab.  (Neatness)
You also still have the rotate selections in the Right Click Menu from the print screen.
See screen snaps attached.
FRED

Hello
Has the Freehand on/off button at the top right of the page gone or moved?
I cant see how to turn freehand placement off without it.

Thanks
John

Hi John,
Yes, Mike moved it. It still works the same.
See screen snaps attached.

Fred

Ah!
:) great thanks!