Image size in printing

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Is there anyway of printing in the top quarter of an A4 paper. Used to use Photoprint but that is no longer available.
Thanks

2

Perhaps:

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Digikam is a (standalone) Graphic application from KDE.

It has a “Print Creator” feature that will do that, and much more (print sheets of thumbnails according to preference, or 2 images per page, 1 per page, and many other combinations.

The whole package will take a lot of learning, but if you only need the Print Creator feature, you can start using it straight away;

Tools → Print Creator; then choose your settings.

sudo pacman -S digikam

I hope this helps.

Regards.

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Thank you, XnView: seems to do the job. I don’t suppose there is any way of getting Photoprint, it was such a handy little tool?

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Doesn’t look that way on Manjaro. Seems to be a Linux Mint thing.

Edit:

I’ve just discovered pix also, from what I can tell from/by Linux Mint. And it is in the extra repository:

$ pamac search pix
[...]
pix  3.4.5-1                                                               extra
Image viewer and browser utility.

So you could give it a go by installing it:

pamac install pix

… and seeing if that works.

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Thank you for all the suggestions. Xnview was the only one I could get to install, sadly I and not very bright with the terminal.

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It’s easy enough;
certainly nothing nothing too complicated. :man_shrugging:

Digikam (Manjaro):
sudo pacman -S digikam or pamac install digikam

XnViewMP (AUR):
pamac build xnviewmp

Either way, they are both decent applications, albeit digikam being available from the official Manjaro repositories, while xnviewmp is not.

Linux is all about choice :wink:

Cheers.

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I use GIMP. It has complete documentation. There is a GIMP plugin package, gimp-plugin-gmic, which has many filters to manipulate an image or photo. I use the montage filter all the time to create a contact sheet. There are a lot of youtube tutorials, just be aware that GIMP’s current version is 3, which brought some changes. Just a couple of months ago it was 2.10, so you might want to restrict your searchs to “gimp 3”, which is whant would be installed from the repository. GIMP has some tutorials online too.

For printing in the top quarter:

File - Print

  • Page Setup - I would check Scale and Paper Size.

  • Image Settings - I would play with the options under Position.

Some of this may vary depending on your printer’s features (i.e., borderless) and installation.

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Using Gimp is a bit like bringing a dump truck to a job that can easily be done with a wheelbarrow. :nerd_face:

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True, GIMP is full featured and version 3 has some nice improvements. Another approach to printing would be to use the command line and lp.

But use what you know. If you don’t know it, you take opportunities to use it to learn it. File > Print is pretty simple. Plus if the OP ever has a need in the future to modify or enhance a photo in a multitude of ways, they’ll have some familiarity to GIMP.

For me, the trick with GIMP was getting the UI setup that worked for me. I found docking dialogs to be a challenge. But I found several serious users who shared their GIMP configurations (brushes, tool presets) through git.

YMMV