I've found 2 major issues with printing (v .41): 1) getting it to print on my fedora system - lp or lpr won't work - the bigger problem is that users shouldn't even have to mess with lp or lpr 2) it won't print a zoomed image - just the original size 3) while we're at it - how about a way to save the zoomed image size to replace the actual size
Gimp offers a much better print dialog box, addressing all of the above issues, can we capitalize on that ?
On 4/19/05, John Taber <jtaber@...480...> wrote:
- it won't print a zoomed image - just the original size
- while we're at it - how about a way to save the zoomed image size to
replace the actual size
What do you mean by printing a zoomed image? Zoom is a screen concept, it cannot have any relation to printing. Or do you refer to printing with scaling, e.g. "fit to page"?
It's kind of a wsiwyg problem. For example, I have a svg image from a dxf with world coordinates so the image itself is very tiny when brought into Inkscape - I can zoom it up on the screen but then I want to print the "zoomed" display image, not the tiny original image - maybe that is called fitting display to page ? And I forgot - it would also be very helpful to export the image in the zoomed display size, again, a tiny image on the png is not what I, as user, needs, I want what I'm seeing on the display. Hope this is more clear.
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 08:14, bulia byak wrote:
On 4/19/05, John Taber <jtaber@...480...> wrote:
- it won't print a zoomed image - just the original size
- while we're at it - how about a way to save the zoomed image size to
replace the actual size
What do you mean by printing a zoomed image? Zoom is a screen concept, it cannot have any relation to printing. Or do you refer to printing with scaling, e.g. "fit to page"?
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On Tuesday 19 Apr 2005 15:57, John Taber wrote:
It's kind of a wsiwyg problem. For example, I have a svg image from a dxf with world coordinates so the image itself is very tiny when brought into Inkscape - I can zoom it up on the screen but then I want to print the "zoomed" display image, not the tiny original image - maybe that is called fitting display to page ? And I forgot - it would also be very helpful to export the image in the zoomed display size, again, a tiny image on the png is not what I, as user, needs, I want what I'm seeing on the display. Hope this is more clear.
Zoom in, select the object, and scale it out as much as possible. Then soom out a bit, and scale it as much as possible again. Keep doing this until it fills the page. You have to realise that you're drawing on a page in Inkscape. What you see on the screen when zooming is like taking a magnifying glass and looking at a tiny bit of that page: the page doesn't change, just how you see it.
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 08:57 -0600, John Taber wrote:
It's kind of a wsiwyg problem. For example, I have a svg image from a dxf with world coordinates so the image itself is very tiny when brought into Inkscape - I can zoom it up on the screen but then I want to print the "zoomed" display image, not the tiny original image - maybe that is called fitting display to page ?
Nah, this is not a wsiwyg problem... It's the concept of graphics apps, especially vector apps, that you can freely zoom around the canvas without changing your output. When you draw a small circle on a sheet of paper and hold it right in front of your eyes, it seems huge, still it hasn't changed its size, nor has the paper... This is the same as with the zoom tool of a graphics app... as long as you don't change the size of an object (draw a big circle on your white sheet of paper) you won't the size of the object won't change. Kinda makes sense to me.
To export an image at a higher resolution just increase the resolution in the export dialogue, that's how simple it is.
David
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