Unable to print correct paper size with Print Creator

[Simon Frei]

This is still a problem with QT's print component:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-58733
This hasn't seen any progress for a long time, but now there is a patch
in review, so hopefully we will see a fix released in the near future.

On 28/12/17 11:40, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
> I decided to take a look at Print Creator using the latest 5.8
> appimage for 64 bit Linux.
>
> Printing a single image via GIMP works fine as long as I use a
> standard paper size like A4 or Postcard. However when I want to print
> a non-standard paper size which my printer supports like 7x5 inches
> there is no option for that size and no custom paper size, at least
> I've not found a way to set a custom size.
>
> This is an issue for me and actually 7x5 photo paper is quite common
> especially for Canon printers (and maybe others as well). I know I can
> scale a photo in GIMP to be that size but by the time the photo
> reaches GIMP it is already scaled by Digikam so I'm not working with
> the original.
>
> The current implementation to print via GIMP is fine if using standard
> paper sizes but to print on non-standard paper it is still better to
> open the image in GIMP and scale and print from GIMP.
>
> Stuart