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Changing Print Size units

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Changing Print Size units iwyklcczyy 28 Jun 05:45
  Changing Print Size units krishna 15 Apr 05:40
   Changing Print Size units Olivier Lecarme 15 Apr 07:32
    Changing Print Size units krishna 15 Apr 13:08
iwyklcczyy
2008-06-28 05:45:40 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Changing Print Size units

Hello list, I've encountered an issue but I'm not sure whether it's a user error, a bug, or just a feature of the way the program works. I'd be grateful for any insight that anyone could give.

I'm running the Windows binary of GIMP 2.4.6 on Windows XP SP2.

What I really want to get is the Print Size in Image > Image Properties displayed in mm rather than inches, but in trying to find out how to do this, I discovered the following: in Image > Print Size (the resulting dialog is titled Set Image Print Resolution), changing the units for Print Size width and height doesn't 'stick': if I change the units from inches to anything else, the width and height values change appropriately, but when I OK out of the dialog then come back in, the units have reverted to inches, and the numbers to their inch values.

Changes made to the X and Y resolution in the same dialog do persist.

It does not appear to be due to the units used for resolution - if I change this to pixels/mm the size units still refuse to be anything other than inches.

The problem exists whether the image has been created with a size defined in pixels or millimeters, and with a resolution defined in pixels/mm or pixels/in. I've tried with the defaults in Preferences defined in mm and pixels/mm and using inches. The default paper size is A4, defined in mm. I have mm selected as the unit in the status bar, and all other sizes are in mm, including the grid and results from the measure tool, with one - presumably linked - exception: File > Print > Image Settings initially appears using inches. If I change this to mm and print the image (the apply button in this dialog remains unavailable, and cancel, unsurprisingly, discards the changes), the change to mm does persist into subsequent visits to the Print dialog - however the Print Size in Image Properties and Set Image Print Resolution remains in inches.

Nothing appears in the error console. The only vaguely related bug that I can find listed is Bug 170200 from 2005 < http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170200 >, which was fixed. I have not tried the development branch, but there seems to be nothing relevant in the changelist.

I did find various references to printing being buggy, especially on Windows - could this be related?

Can anyone confirm this problem, or point out where I'm going wrong? Thanks a lot.

krishna
2009-04-15 05:40:08 UTC (almost 16 years ago)
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Changing Print Size units

What I really want to get is the Print Size in Image > Image Properties displayed in mm rather than inches, but in trying to find

[. . .]

I too needed a display different from the default one. I wanted it to display in picas. Could not find a solution so far. However as far as I could understand it is related to the selection of units in the OS. GIMP refers to the unit as 'real world' units.

Found a work around (for my purposes). In the Preferences/Image Window/Title & Appearance made the following changes.

Changed the small 'w' and 'h' to their capitals which means Image width/height shown in real-world units in the title bar instead of pixels.

Added '%u' to display the unit (in abbreviation).

Now, when I change the units selection in the status bar of the image window, the dimension in that unit is displayed in the title bar. However for resolution I have to call the Image Properties by 'Alt+Return'.

I found Section 1.12.1 'Changing the format' in the page http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-pimping.html very useful to make these tweaks.

Olivier Lecarme
2009-04-15 07:32:26 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

Changing Print Size units

Krishna G. S. wrote:

What I really want to get is the Print Size in Image > Image Properties displayed in mm rather than inches, but in trying to find

[. . .]

I too needed a display different from the default one. I wanted it to display in picas. Could not find a solution so far. However as far as I could understand it is related to the selection of units in the OS. GIMP refers to the unit as 'real world' units.

Every time in GIMP you have a dimension in some dialog, there is besides a small menu for changing the unit. The only special cases are the image window rulers, where the unit is the same as indicated by the unit menu in the status bar, ... and the Image Properties you are referring to. However, you can know the print size in any unit you want by using Image

Print Size.

krishna
2009-04-15 13:08:31 UTC (almost 16 years ago)
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Changing Print Size units

Every time in GIMP you have a dimension in some dialog, there is besides a small menu for changing the unit. The only special cases are the image window rulers, where the unit is the same as indicated by the unit menu in the status bar, ... and the Image Properties you are referring to. However, you can know the print size in any unit you want by using Image

Print Size.

You are right that one can know the print size from Image>Print Size. But there too the unit of your choice does not 'stay'. It defaults to millimeters in my system. If there was a way to make it remember my choice of unit Image>Print Size would be fine.