Unforch, when I scan something, save as a .png, then load to gimp for printing, the printer wants to full page whatever the size, including any border I might have included in the xsane driven scan, such that its exactly full page on the printer.
This is fine if it takes a reduction to make an inch equal an inch at the printers output, that 'shrink' can be done in the printers front end. However, if that would make it bleed half an inch, it cannot be done as it won't 'scale' to more than 100%. So I find myself rescanning, and purposely leaving out a half inch on each end so that the result can be, albeit missing the ends of the pattern, at least 100% sized for the remainder. I've not found a way to crop the image that actually removes the ends of a long image so that the remainder would scale up to 100% at the printer. Cropping leaves the no data checkerboard on screen ok, but this empty space is still being sent to the printer to control the scaling in the driver, in this case gimp-print-4.2.6rc2. Am I being an idiot? Intuitive it doesn't seem to be. Something like hideing the variable rotations in a completely different menu from the fixed rotations. Its easier to rescan, move copy, and rescan etc and rescan util there is no rotation needed than it is to find the 1 degree operator needed to square something up. OTOH, I don't do graphics for a living either, this is woodworking related, I'm 80% retired these days. Or is that just 80% tired... :) -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
