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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 |
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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 [...] 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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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