[Kde-imaging] [Bug 95404] Feature request: printwizard print image with custom size, original size, autoscaled size to paper

[Angelo Naselli]

> I second comment #3 and would go further to say that cropping images or changing aspect ratios should never happen, at least not by default. For anyone 
in the graphics world, a square or differently proportioned print or thumbnail print of an image is useless or worse than useless.
I'm not sure i've got it. But without cropping the photos made with my camera 
will never fit in any photo papers i've tried (maybe 13x18 cm not sure though).
That means if I chose to enlarge/reduce the image (even preserving ratio) 
I would have white space somewhere (depending on paper layout).

That does not mean i don't like the idea to preserve the image layout, or
keep ratio, that only mean that if i took the image to a photographer
he would probably crop my photo to make it fitting into 10x15 cm layout.
He for sure doesn't use kipi-plugins :)

> Also, I find it frustrating that print size options vary according to the paper size that has been selected. Both should be independently adjustable in 
either metric or imperial dimensions.
Changing that would mean changing a lot of code IIRC, i will think about it, but maybe the best
time to change printwizard behaviour is when we will port it on kde4, since we must
move from kprinter to qprinter.
 
> My ideal image printing software is ACDSee Classic and I'd love to see Print Wizard work more like that and less like the Windows Print Wizard which 
makes too many assumptions and tries (unsuccessfully) to think for me. (ACDSee Classic, by the way, is the program as it was about 10 years ago before it 
got all the bells and whistles that needlessly complicated it. 
Printwizard is just a wizard, but could become more like a print assistant if changed a bit.
ACDSee is a proprietary sw and developed by payed people who probably make what the market asks for,
here we are volonteers so we make our best in our *little* spare time...
Print menu (like it should be in acdsee) is for host applications not for kipi-plugins imo.
> I can elaborate on the features I like if anyone is interested.) 
Contributors are always welcome so please go on, i will be happy to see your
patches and add them to our plugins.

Angelo
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