Shrinking image to fit page size in 3.5 ?

[James Richard Tyrer]

Pavel Troller wrote:
> Hi!
>   I have some stupid questions about printing images in KDE 3.5.
>   In KDE 3.4, when I attempted do print an image bigger than the page, a small
> dialog window appeared with approximately the following text:
>   "The image you want to print is bigger than the page. Do you want to shrink
> it to fit page size?"
>   ... and with buttons like "Ignore", "Shrink" and "Cancel".
>   Currently, the dialog is not there and even the preview shows that the
> image is not shrinked and only a part would be printed. The exception is in
> kfm, where I get a small window with a slider and a page preview. But even when
> I move the slider full-right, which shows in the preview that the image should
> fit the page exactly, the real result is that the image is printed too small
> (about 75%), sitting in the upper left corner of the paper. My paper size is
> set correctly (A4). So it is an opposite situation - the image is always printed
> too small.
>   The ONLY program which prints perfectly, without asking or adjusting anything
> manually, always adjusting the image to the page size, is kuickshow.
>   Please tell me what I'm doing wrong, how to recall back the shrink option
> and how to make the kfm sizing window work properly in KDE 3.5. 

I find the same problem in 3.4.x+.  What we don't know is if this was an 
intentional change.

In the KPrint dialog, open: "Options" and select the: "Image Settings" 
tab and you can check:

	Fit image to page size
	Center image on page

-- 
JRT
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