Printing multiple images
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:02 am
Sometimes I want to print pages of images to take to my art table to use as drawing references.
Now, MP doesn't give you an option to arrange multiple images for printing - the best you get is to use "Thumbnails".
So, that's what I'm doing.
However, I need to print two images to a page in landscape layout.
The preview of the print does not display a landscape mode page - in fact, it doesn't display a letter-sized page at all, even though Page Setup is set to 8.5x11 landscape. Changing the layout mode does not change the shape of the paper dimensions in the preview.
That being said, I have another problem - the Margins. I want them to stay at .25 for all sides, but they keep changing.
So, I've got Page Setup set to landscape mode on 8.5x11, 1 row with 2 columns. That should give me two images on one side of the paper set out side by side. The preview shows me a teeny tiny little image -probably because for some reason it made the margins 1.63 all the way around. Even still, the preview doesn't show accurately.
When I send the configuration to the printer, it puts the two images side by side like they ought to, but places them in the lower left corner of the page. For some reason the "center" button is grayed out in the print settings.
Anyway, what am I doing wrong? It seems so hard to try to print images. I want to just choose the images I want to print, decide how many are on the page and have them print centered in the page side by side. I'd also like each image to "fit" into the row/column area. So maybe I'm really asking for more printing options and a more accurate preview?
It seems to me I've used this feature in past versions (using the most recent 0.94.2 x64) and didn't have any troubles using Thumbnails printing to do this. Maybe something changed under the hood? Or, I admit, maybe I'm doing something wrong?
Now, MP doesn't give you an option to arrange multiple images for printing - the best you get is to use "Thumbnails".
So, that's what I'm doing.
However, I need to print two images to a page in landscape layout.
The preview of the print does not display a landscape mode page - in fact, it doesn't display a letter-sized page at all, even though Page Setup is set to 8.5x11 landscape. Changing the layout mode does not change the shape of the paper dimensions in the preview.
That being said, I have another problem - the Margins. I want them to stay at .25 for all sides, but they keep changing.
So, I've got Page Setup set to landscape mode on 8.5x11, 1 row with 2 columns. That should give me two images on one side of the paper set out side by side. The preview shows me a teeny tiny little image -probably because for some reason it made the margins 1.63 all the way around. Even still, the preview doesn't show accurately.
When I send the configuration to the printer, it puts the two images side by side like they ought to, but places them in the lower left corner of the page. For some reason the "center" button is grayed out in the print settings.
Anyway, what am I doing wrong? It seems so hard to try to print images. I want to just choose the images I want to print, decide how many are on the page and have them print centered in the page side by side. I'd also like each image to "fit" into the row/column area. So maybe I'm really asking for more printing options and a more accurate preview?
It seems to me I've used this feature in past versions (using the most recent 0.94.2 x64) and didn't have any troubles using Thumbnails printing to do this. Maybe something changed under the hood? Or, I admit, maybe I'm doing something wrong?