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Re: [Digital BW] For Stephen Billiard-Behavior mod/feature requests for QTR/GUI

2004-12-27 by Steven Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen 
Billard" <stephen@s...> wrote:
> The bit with the Preset Name going away has to do with changing 
margins or
> such. I am changing it so that the only thing that will make the 
name go
> away is changing ink type settings.

Thanks, that will help a lot!
> 
> As for multiple prints per page, That change would require 
QuadToneRIP and
> QTRgui to both change. It would be a pretty extensive change.

I had a feeling it would mean major changes-thought I'd ask anyway. 
Have you
> investigated Qimage? (www.ddisoftware.com) Most people with a need 
for page
> management on the PC use Qimage. 

I currently own and use Qimage, but haven't been able to make 
the 'print-to-file' work for me yet-I'll try again, perhaps with a 
different incantation this time?

Thanks

Steve Karafyllakis

> -Stephen
>  www.sbillard.org/Stephen
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Karafyllakis [mailto:steve@s...] 
> > Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 11:09 PM
> > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [Digital BW] For Stephen Billiard-Behavior 
> > mod/feature requests for QTR/GUI
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hello Stephen;
> > 
> > After putting in a little time with the 2+ versions of your GUI, 
I 
> > find myself wishing for a couple changes I hope you will 
> > consider. The first one has to do with the name of the 
> > currently loaded preset- it goes away when the spooling is 
> > finished, so by the time you're 
> > done printing an image, you have to remember which preset is 
loaded. 
> > Not a big deal 10 minutes down the road, but since the program 
now 
> > retains print settings between uses, it would be nice if it also 
> > retained the name of those settings as well. 
> >  The other is more a feature request, and probably a lot more 
> > difficult, but I'll ask anyway, & you tell me if you're willing 
to 
> > go there: For those of us who use roll paper in particular, it 
would 
> > be great if we could position and print more than one image on a 
> > given size of paper. As it stands, I find myself cutting 24x14 
> > strips off the roll to print two 11x14s, for instance. Cutting 
and 
> > printing heavily curled roll paper is no picnic. 
> > 
> > Thanks for considering these, and thank for all the hard work 
you 
> > and Roy have put into QTR/GUI.
> > 
> > Steve Karafyllakis
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
> >

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