Unable to print correct paper size with Print Creator

[Simon Frei]

Installing a new digikam version wont help you. As long as the issue in
QT I linked to before (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-58733)
isn't resolved and released, it will persist. A solution is underway,
but it will still take a while for it to make it into a new QT release,
and then into the different distribution repos and/or our appimage. So
don't hold your breath on this...

On 03/01/18 02:45, Melissa Mendelsohn wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have followed this thread and installed 5.8.0 but I still cannot print anything but a thumbnail image.
> Is there anything you can suggest I do to change the size?
> I have tried resizing using GIMP to print as well to no avail
> Thanks in advance..
> Melissa
>
>> On Dec 28, 2017, at 5:47 AM, Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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