Printing in Gimp 2.4.5

David Ryder davaweb at bigpond.net.au
Mon Sep 1 22:02:50 BST 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 06:56 +1000, David Ryder wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 13:27 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:16:23 +1000
> > David Ryder <davaweb at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > 
> > > [SOLVED - thanks irc.gimp]
> > 
> > Umm - and the solution was ??
> > 
> > Peter
> My apologies - the solution was the scaling factor (Gimp>File>Print>Page
> Setup) - preview disregards the scaling factor, wrongly in my opinion,
> whereas printing uses it. Thus, I had inadvertently set scaling to .1%
> instead of 100% and Preview always showed the correctly scaled to paper
> size picture.
> 
"Preview always showed the correctly scaled to paper size picture." should read:
Preview always showed the picture to paper size image as I expected it,
not as it was scaled to. i.e. it showed a 100% scaled preview, not a .1%
preview.




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