GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 698035
Cannot set the print size of an image
Last modified: 2018-05-24 13:40:36 UTC
I want the printed image in landscape wiew with a width of 10in. I do the following: Image -> Print size. In the dialog I enter Width: 9in it automatically sets Height: 6.377in which is the right proportion. I press OK and go to File -> Page Setup. I enter paper size: Letter, and tick Landscape. I leave the default margins at 6.35mm = 0.25in and press OK. then I go to File -> Print. In the General tab I press Preferences the printer dialog appears with Paper Size A4 and Orientation Portrait which are not the printer's default preferences. I change the preferences to Letter and Landscape and press OK. In the Image Settings tab the Width shows as 7.768in and the Height as 5.504in (right proportion). The preview appears in Portrait view with the image filling the width. I attempt to change the width to 10in but it stays at 7.768in. If I press Print now, the image appears on the upper left corner of a landscape page with a width of aproximately 7.77in. This happened every time I tried. I did try to print other images in landscape view and the same thing happened although the unchangeble dimensions were slightly different. If I select portrait view the whole procedure works provided that I do not select the print size of the image too close to the page width minus the margins. I did try to print an image in portrait mode with a width of 8in. Letter paper with 0.25in margins has a widtn of 8.05in. The unchangeble with in the Print, image setting tab was 7.472in which implies side margins of 13.11mm instead of the 6.35mm that were selected
Erratum in first line: should say width of 9in not width of 10in
Are you saying that even tho the preview in the dialog is showing the right thing, the result on paper looks different?
No, the preview is also wrong. When I choose landscape orientation the preview shows portrait. When I choose portrait the preview does show correctly, however if I ask for the image to be centred even if the preview shows correctly in the printout the image is at the top of the page and the margins are incorrect (I cannot judge if the margins in the preview are the correct ones). In case you need it my printer is an EPSON WorkForce 630.
Does upgrading to the latest 2.8.10 installer fix this bug?
(In reply to comment #4) > Does upgrading to the latest 2.8.10 installer fix this bug? No the problem persists exactly as before.
I guess 2.8.14 still behaves the same?
(In reply to Michael Schumacher from comment #6) > I guess 2.8.14 still behaves the same? Yes, it does behave the same
Any plans on addressing this? I'm on GIMP 2.8.14. I use GIMP often to process photos of documents or other bad scan quality images to make them legible. But if I need to crop then unfortunately the print output is smaller and there is literally no way to get it to print bigger within GIMP. (Image -> Print size does nothing.)
This works just fine on Linux, and we have close to zero Windows developers, that's why most Windows bugs are just sitting there.
this bug still exist in the latest GIMP release 2.8.18(Windows). please fix this annoying BUG .
Hamid, if you have development experience on the windows platforms - especially with printing - we'd be very happy if you could help.
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