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0.85b2: Contact sheet: thumbs missing at the end of the rows
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:58 pm
by HanVroon
When thumbnails per page starts with 4, every 5th thumbnail is missing.
So it looks like the program wants to put 5 on a row, but the 5th falls of the sheet.
Now it gets complicated:
(all tests done with 6 rows, and only previewed, 16 thumbs selected)
5x6: OK, 16 shown
6x6: OK, 16 shown
7x6: not OK, 14 shown, no. 8 and 16 mising
8x6: not OK, no. 9 missing, so 7 on second row
9x6: not OK, no. 10 missing
Important: This only happens when selecting paper size Letter, Legal, A4 or A3. When selecting 4x6 through 11x14 all the thumbs are show in the preview.
Re: 0.85b2: Contact sheet: thumbs missing at the end of the
Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 12:18 am
by helmut
Confirmed. Good that you found this bug, HanVroon.

Re: 0.85b2: Contact sheet: thumbs missing at the end of the
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:32 am
by xnview
This problem is supposed to be fixed in
XnView MP 0.85 beta 3. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.
Re: 0.85b2: Contact sheet: thumbs missing at the end of the
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 12:28 pm
by HanVroon
Tested in 0.85 beta 3, partly fixed.
No missing thumbs anymore, but two new things.
I report them here because it all seems to deal with the same thing, calculations in combination with margins.
This morning I saw that I could get all the thumbs selected on the sheet in beta 2 by entering horizontal spacing for the thumbnail. At 4 pixels and more all thumbs were displayed, from 0 to 3 pixels not.
Now, with beta 3, all the thumbs are always displayed, but:
(asume thumbnais are set to 4 x 4 per page)
With all margins (sheet and thumbnail) set to 0, at the right side there is a white space along the sheet. That was'n the case in beta 2.
When entering horizontal space at sheet level, starting with 1 pixel already, there will be 3 thumbs on a row instead of 4 (thumbnail margins still at 0 x 0).
When enetring also horizontal space at thumb level, just 1 pixel is enough, there are 4 thumbs on a row again, as should be.
So there are some calculation errors in combination with margins.
Re: 0.85b2: Contact sheet: thumbs missing at the end of the
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 1:17 pm
by xnview
yes, you can have a small spacing at the right. For example, you want a width of 1023 px, and 4 thumbnails, so the size of each thumbnail if 255, but you have a spacing of 3px (1023-4*255)
Re: 0.85b2: Contact sheet: thumbs missing at the end of the
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:54 pm
by HanVroon
OK, got that.I had set paper size to A4, got width 595 pixels. When I change that to 596 it can be devided through 4, so no white space.
Did you look at the other point I mentioned:
When entering horizontal space at sheet level, starting with 1 pixel already, there will be 3 thumbs on a row instead of 4 (thumbnail margins still at 0 x 0).
When enetring also horizontal space at thumb level, just 1 pixel is enough, there are 4 thumbs on a row again, as should be.
This now starts at 2 pixels instead of one (?).
To reproduce:
1- Select 8 thumbs
2- Use program defaults (1024x1024, 4x4 thumbs, sheet margins and thumbnail margins all on 0.
3- Preview will show 2 rows of 4 thumbs.
4- Set the sheet marin width at 2 pixels (or more).
5- Preview will show 2 rows of 3 thumbs and a 3rd row with the last 2 thumbs.
I would expect the thumbs to shrink a little and still 2 rows of 4 thumbs.
Re: 0.85b2: Contact sheet: thumbs missing at the end of the
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 12:38 pm
by HanVroon
Fixed in 0.85 beta 4
Now look OK. Tested with all kind of margin settings on sheet and thumbnail, the amount of thumbs is always according to Thumbnails per page setting.