Unable to print correct paper size with Print Creator

[Stuart T Rogers]

Gilles

All I know is what is in the bug report. I run openSUSE Tumbleweed and 
was told they had added the fix in an update they produced which is why 
I can test it. As yet I do not know what the final fix release will be.

Apparently the fix was added to a QT 5.10 update in Tumbleweed but 
whether this is the final fix release or if it will be backported I do 
not know. Sorry.

Stuart

On 03/01/18 11:22, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Stuart,
> 
> When you said that fix is in Qt and is fixed, do you know which Qt 
> version will include this patch ?
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 2018-01-03 12:18 GMT+01:00 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk 
> <mailto:stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>>:
> 
>     The fix for this is available and does work but will take some time
>     for systems to get the QT release that contains it.
> 
>     Please be aware that the fix is in QT and has nothing to do with
>     digikam. The issue which is fixed is that the Print Creator is
>     unable to select anything other than non-standard paper sizes, in my
>     case I was unable to select 5x7 borderless for my Canon iP7250
>     printer amongst other non-standard sizes. This is because it calls
>     QT to do this.This bug affects any and all applications which use QT
>     Printing Support.
> 
>     The problem you have Melissa sounds to me like a problem in digikam
>     and this fix will do nothing for you. I suggest you start a new
>     thread about your issue and follow up through that.
> 
>     Stuart
> 
> 
>     On 03/01/18 10:31, Simon Frei wrote:
> 
>         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
>         <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 <mailto:freisim93 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>                 This is still a problem with QT's print component:
>                 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-58733
>                 <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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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