Desktop pic Program ???

On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 15:20:19 -0500, Big Al wrote:

On 3/6/19 3:05 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 11:42:34 -0500, Big Al wrote:

On 3/5/19 9:14 AM, wrote:
I have been having trouble printing JPG pics. The only one that seems
to work is the one I get when I right-click on a desktop jpg icon
which brings up a niceprogram with a nice selection window allowing me
to do in part 1,2,4,..... pics per page. If I select 1 pic per page,
the result is a nice 8X10 pic. Not only do I not get this app any
other way, but their results are not 8X10,

How do I select the app that works? IOW, where and what is it?
Seems stupid, but I really would like to create an icon shortcut to
it, whatever it is.
Thanks
xxxxx

When the program comes up to print, just go to the help- about and find
the name of the program.

If you can find it in either C:\program files or C:\program files (x86)
then all you have to do to make it the default program in explorer is
right click the jpg in explorer and find the 'open with' on that
dropdown. Click 'open with' and see if the program is in the list
first, if not there is a more. And if not there there is a browse, and
you need to find the .exe in C:\program files or program files (x86).
Make sure you have the box checked that says 'always use this program'.

Once you do it, it will become the default when you just double click a
jpg. You can change it to something else this way, or any file for
that matter.

Al

I have used that technque myself for other programs, but as u can see
in the image below, I do not see any helpabout or for that matter any
menu bar. Wish I did.


https://imgur.com/a/v7QyPAZ

Thanx
xxxxx

What's the little blue ? kinda in the upper right side. Also bring up
task manager, it should show you the programs running.


The 'little blue' at the top shows 'print pictures' in W7, whereas
there is nothing but blue in W10.
xxxxx

wrote:

I didn't think Irfanview did multiple pics per page, a feature that I
really like. . I'll take another look at that.
xxxxx

My thinking is, the N-up feature comes from your
Epson printer driver.

The application you use, still has to "cooperate"
with the printer driver.

I cannot guarantee what will happen, but you can
test it and see.

I tried N-up on more than one synthetic output option,
and none worked. Which suggests it might be a Photos
problem.

I don't have the breadth of Irfanview usage, to tell
you what to expect. I do batch conversions once in a
while (JPG to BMP maybe), and don't use it for much else.

Paul

On Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:08:14 -0500, Paul
wrote:

wrote:

I didn't think Irfanview did multiple pics per page, a feature that I
really like. . I'll take another look at that.
xxxxx

My thinking is, the N-up feature comes from your
Epson printer driver.


I get it with my Brother laser and two Epson AIOs
xxxx

The application you use, still has to "cooperate"
with the printer driver.

I cannot guarantee what will happen, but you can
test it and see.

I tried N-up on more than one synthetic output option,
and none worked. Which suggests it might be a Photos
problem.

I don't have the breadth of Irfanview usage, to tell
you what to expect. I do batch conversions once in a
while (JPG to BMP maybe), and don't use it for much else.

Paul

In article , Wolf K
wrote:

I didn't think Irfanview did multiple pics per page, a feature that I
really like. . I'll take another look at that.
xxxxx
My thinking is, the N-up feature comes from your
Epson printer driver.

I get it with my Brother laser and two Epson AIOs
xxxx

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AFAIK, the N-up feature is in the document software.

it can be either. most printers have that option, and some apps also
support it, often with additional layout options.

for example:
https://www.presetsheaven.com/wp-content/2012/12/print-template.png

The printer just
prints what it gets. It prints X lines of dots at a time, where X
depends on the physical design of the printing mechanism. The software
sends a stream of bytes which are translated into the lines of dots.
From the printer's POV it makes no difference whether the lines of dots
are interrupted in such a way that the output looks like four pages or
four photos printed on one sheet of paper.

yep. the printer doesn't care.

On 6/03/2019 12:14 am, wrote:
I have been having trouble printing JPG pics. The only one that seems
to work is the one I get when I right-click on a desktop jpg icon
which brings up a niceprogram with a nice selection window allowing me
to do in part 1,2,4,..... pics per page. If I select 1 pic per page,
the result is a nice 8X10 pic. Not only do I not get this app any
other way, but their results are not 8X10,

How do I select the app that works? IOW, where and what is it?
Seems stupid, but I really would like to create an icon shortcut to
it, whatever it is.
Thanks
xxxxx

Perhaps this is not the way you expected an answer, but this method works well for me...
I use Irfanview to make any adjustments to photos (cropping, text insertion, color
adjustments), and save the edited pics.
Then copy & paste the edited photos onto a Word page, where you can use RtClick - 'Size
and position' on each pic to move them around. You can resize them too.
When happy with the way the page looks, Ctrl P to bring up the print dialog and choose
'Printer Properties' to choose the type of paper & the quality you want.

wrote:
On Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:08:14 -0500, Paul
wrote:

wrote:

I didn't think Irfanview did multiple pics per page, a feature that I
really like. . I'll take another look at that.
xxxxx
My thinking is, the N-up feature comes from your
Epson printer driver.


I get it with my Brother laser and two Epson AIOs
xxxx

If I gather a set of JPGs and highlight a bunch,
the right-click menu has Open (which might open
in Photos), but it also has a Print.

The Photos has its own Printer icon, which has
the broken N-up feature in it.

*******

The Print from Explorer right-click context menu,
has a working N-up. However, the results were
far from satisfactory. My pictures looked terrible,
and it might have to do with the 600DPI resolution
choice offered. (If you do N-up, then that 600DPI
doesn't go very far, and each individual picture
looks low-res.)

*******

To be honest with you, where I need absolute control
of positioning, I prefer my old copy of FrameBuilder,
where I can control just about everything. It's more
work to paste all the images into a document (word
processor), but you can get to review what you're
getting in a PDF if you like.

I doubt LibreOffice would give good results, but
it's free. You could try LibreOffice writer and
put some pictures in there. The trick with DTP tools
is getting a decent template selected before you start.
Fixing a bad template choice later is going to be
a lot of pain.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Here is a sample of using LibreOffice to fill a
typewriter sheet page. Then, being able to
admire it, before actually wasting printer paper on it.

https://i.postimg.cc/85wP1FMX/libreo...y-to-print.jpg

It's important when doing it that way, to turn of
"reduce resolution" type functions in the Export to PDF
dialog. The picture of the city in the example, is
3840x2160 or so, and the pixels will be preserved right
up until the actual print happens.

I prefer that to N-up, because I could potentially
take images of different sizes, and pick a tiling
that best uses my inkjet coated media.

*******

There is GIMP for image editing, but it's not likely
to have good enough table manners for a job like this.

https://www.gimp.org/

Some capabilities of GIMP could rely on GhostScript.
Usually, a variable has to be defined *somewhere*, so
that GIMP can find the gs .EXE.

https://ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html

Paul

On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 15:13:02 +1000, Bob Borbiro
wrote:

On 6/03/2019 12:14 am, wrote:
I have been having trouble printing JPG pics. The only one that seems
to work is the one I get when I right-click on a desktop jpg icon
which brings up a niceprogram with a nice selection window allowing me
to do in part 1,2,4,..... pics per page. If I select 1 pic per page,
the result is a nice 8X10 pic. Not only do I not get this app any
other way, but their results are not 8X10,

How do I select the app that works? IOW, where and what is it?
Seems stupid, but I really would like to create an icon shortcut to
it, whatever it is.
Thanks
xxxxx

Perhaps this is not the way you expected an answer, but this method works well for me...
I use Irfanview to make any adjustments to photos (cropping, text insertion, color
adjustments), and save the edited pics.
Then copy & paste the edited photos onto a Word page, where you can use RtClick - 'Size
and position' on each pic to move them around. You can resize them too.
When happy with the way the page looks, Ctrl P to bring up the print dialog and choose
'Printer Properties' to choose the type of paper & the quality you want.

I hadn't thought of that. Thanks.
Actually a long time ago I made an album that way - so I should be
able to do it again huh?
xxxxx

In article , Bob Borbiro
wrote:

Perhaps this is not the way you expected an answer, but this method works
well for me...
I use Irfanview to make any adjustments to photos (cropping, text insertion,
color
adjustments), and save the edited pics.
Then copy & paste the edited photos onto a Word page, where you can use
RtClick - 'Size
and position' on each pic to move them around. You can resize them too.
When happy with the way the page looks, Ctrl P to bring up the print dialog
and choose
'Printer Properties' to choose the type of paper & the quality you want.

that is a horrible idea. do not do that unless you want ****ty quality
results.