[Digikam-devel] [Bug 122693] New: improvement proposals for the "add border" plugin

[Sebastian Roeder]

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           Summary: improvement proposals for the "add border" plugin
           Product: digikamimageplugins
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: sebastian.roeder uni-bielefeld de


Version:           0.9.0 (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

This should be a comment to
Bug 118535: Add Border: use percent to designate border size. However I was not able to comment to this bug cause bko complaint about invalid version the report was assignt to (0.8.8). So here is the text of the wish again:

It would be nice to be able to add a border to an image (or group of images in batch mode) with the size specified as a percentage of the image size.  This would provide a consistent looking border to a set of images which are different sizes. 
 


I second this wish, cause in this way one could realy get a consistent look.

However from my understanding, the border size should only be a percentage value in relation to ONE (e.g. the longer) side of a picture - and this value should be applied to both the long and the short side of the image, so that on both sides the borders have the same width.

Related is a second improvement for the plugin. I used the plugin to add a white border to some photos that I have trimmed to an aspect ratio 2:3 before. Unfortuntaly the borders were slightly cut when the images were print. The reason: the plugin puts the borders "around" the images, thus increasing its size slightly and producing an slight aspect ratio missmatch (if you put a 10px border around every edge, then the aspect ratio of a 2:3 landscape format photo gets slightly more in direction to a 2:3.1 format).

To fix this, please put the border "inside" the picture, not extending it but "overwriting" the content of the picture in the border area.

I hope I found the right English words for the problem - maybe this wishes can be taken into consideration when the border plugin is adjusted for digikam 0.9.x 16bit color space.

Thanks in advance!