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From: Jeff.Randall@... [mailto:Jeff.Randall@...] 
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:07 PM
To: stephen@...
Subject: Placement and Scale Features Problems


Hi Stephen:
 
QTRgui 2.5.1.9
 
I don't know if this falls into a Feature request or bug report or both.
 
The Placement and Scale features are not working as I expect (want?).
 
1) Under Tools|Options Auto Orient and Drag and Drop Auto Print are NOT
checked.
2) I set my Orientation. Placement|Centered and Scale|To Fit are not
checked.
3) I drag an image to the open QTRgui window or File|Select Image.
4) The upper top left of the image (relative to the QTRgui thumbnail) is as
shown in the Placement|Top - Left text boxes. [As expected]
5) I can increase or decrease the scale and the image grows or shrinks with
the top left of the image remaining stationary. [As expected].
6) If I check Scale|To Fit, the Placement|Centered box becomes also checked
and the image is scaled up or down properly BUT centered on the short side.
[Unexpected].
7) I can uncheck Placement|Centered and reset the top left image corner to
my liking, BUT these are to my mind wasted steps. 
 
a) I'd like the Placement|Centered and Scale|To Fit functions to be
independent. This is most critical if the Drag and Drop Auto Print and the
Monitored Folders features are checked.  
 
b) I'd also like to be able to set a single fixed top left of each image AND
have QTRgui scale to fit *each* different size image in the que to the
remaining image area whether portrait or landscape orientation is manually
or automatically selected or if am manually drag or use select individual
images OR using Drag and Drop Auto Print or Monitored Folders is used. 
 
c) I'd like to check both Placement|Centered and Scale|To Fit functions and
have QTRgui scale and center each different size image in the que.  
 
c) A lock feature that would lock the Scale % and/or the top left corner
coords to a fixed value for all images in the que (as is done now by
default) would complete the flexible suite of features.
 
Am I missing something -- am I nuts?
 

jr




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-----Original Message-----
From: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com [mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Alan Ansell
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:59 AM
To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Placement and Scale Features Problems

> For those of you on the QTR list: What behavior would you like
to
see? Be
> specific like Jeff was.
>
> - Stephen
> stephen.sbillard.org <[1]http://www.sbillard.org/>

Did I miss this earlier post? Apologies for not replying sooner.
For my money, one really nice feature I'd like to see added to QTR is when
using the calibration switch, which forces QTR to print an ink limit page
(titled Ink Pattern Page) that we are given a further option to select which
of the several supplied TIFFs we would like to use.

I notice that there are several in the folder, and one of the things I first
found most confusing about QTR was  when trying to create curves for a five
or six channel printer, when the printed page was always eight channels. So
rather than have to work out which were being used, and for what, I'd like
to be able to choose the ink seperation output that matched my specific
printer (in my case a 1289/1290 using just six channels).

References

1. http://www.sbillard.org/
--
  Alan Ansell
  aansell@...



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