Auto-rotate page in showfoto printer

[Anders Lund]

Hello everybody,

I've just added a 'Auto-rotate page' option to ShowFotos printing dialog. When
enabled, the page orientation is automatically syncronized with that of the
image, saving you from entering the printer properties for that purpose.

The change is added to trunk digikam, if you use that version please update
and test.

If you don't know me, I've been doing kate development since a long time, and
also added a few patches around KDE, and recently I also provided a small
patch to the digikam editor printer, which should speed up printing
dramatically in many cases. I plan to contribute some improvements to the
KIPI image printing wizard in the near future as well.

If you have comments after trying it out, please let me know.

Please CC any answers to this message to me, since i'm not subscribed to the
digikam-users list.

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[Anders Lund]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 22:51, you wrote:
> Would you like to add a couple of album collages for A4 paper (they are
> already compiled in for Letter size)?  I hacked in a bit of code to make a
> couple up a few months ago, but they never made it to the csv code for some
> reason.  You're welcome to the code changes!
>
> Actually, if you are looking at a rewrite, it would be far better for
> albums layouts to be in an editable configuration file, read in when
> needed, rather than hard coded!

Well, my first and foremost goal is to add a function that allows to print
images that just fills up the paper (with a margin that could preferably be
set inside the wizard) and to add zooming to the existing cropping utility.

Having had a look at the code for getting the layouts, I'd say that specifying
layouts in some XML format wouldn't be a bad idea.

Looking at the wizard in general, I think it needs a complete relayout, I find
that the pages are overcrowded, and that it should integrate better with the
KDE printing framework, for example to get a list of possible paper sizes for
a printer. Then this is really a development discussion, so maybe it would
fit better in the development mailing list for a start ;)

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[David BERCOT]

Hi,

> Hello everybody,
>
> I've just added a 'Auto-rotate page' option to ShowFotos printing dialog. When
> enabled, the page orientation is automatically syncronized with that of the
> image, saving you from entering the printer properties for that purpose.
>
> The change is added to trunk digikam, if you use that version please update
> and test.

Speaking about showfoto, I have two wishes...
First of all, I'm looking fora software which can show photos using Exif
informations... I've tried gqview and gthumb, but there were not ok. So,
I thought : why not using the add-in for digikam ;-)
Second, why showfoto could not make a diaporama automatically (like
gqview and gthumb) from konqueror or nautilus ? If I open a photo from
Nautilus in showfoto, I can't do "next" or "previous" for the others
photos which are in the same directory...

Thank you very much.

David.


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[Gilles Caulier]

Le Samedi 17 Décembre 2005 20:08, Anders Lund a écrit :
> Hello everybody,
>
> I've just added a 'Auto-rotate page' option to ShowFotos printing dialog.
> When enabled, the page orientation is automatically syncronized with that
> of the image, saving you from entering the printer properties for that
> purpose.

Thanks for this job Anders. I'm happy to see that a new contributor will
improve printing functions.

>
> The change is added to trunk digikam, if you use that version please update
> and test.

is this possible to backport easily this job to stable branch ?

>
> If you don't know me, I've been doing kate development since a long time,
> and also added a few patches around KDE, and recently I also provided a
> small patch to the digikam editor printer, which should speed up printing
> dramatically in many cases.

I remember you on IRC (:=)))

> I plan to contribute some improvements to the
> KIPI image printing wizard in the near future as well.

Great. Welcome in the team !

>
> If you have comments after trying it out, please let me know.
>
> Please CC any answers to this message to me, since i'm not subscribed to
> the digikam-users list.

Are you  subscribed to digikam-devel ML ?

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[Gilles Caulier]

Le Dimanche 18 Décembre 2005 11:21, David BERCOT a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I've just added a 'Auto-rotate page' option to ShowFotos printing dialog.
> > When enabled, the page orientation is automatically syncronized with that
> > of the image, saving you from entering the printer properties for that
> > purpose.
> >
> > The change is added to trunk digikam, if you use that version please
> > update and test.
>
> Speaking about showfoto, I have two wishes...
> First of all, I'm looking fora software which can show photos using Exif
> informations... I've tried gqview and gthumb, but there were not ok. So,
> I thought : why not using the add-in for digikam ;-)

On 0.8.0, you have a tool to search image using EXIF comments. You want
certainly seach and image using others metadata like camera model, exposure
time, GPS info, etc.

Search image tool can be improved in the future (later 0.9.0 issue) using new
Digikam::DImg API in core witch manage image data and metada from JPG, TIFF,
PNG, etc. But we need to finalize/stabilize/Polish this API before to change
anything in search tools.

> Second, why showfoto could not make a diaporama automatically (like
> gqview and gthumb) from konqueror or nautilus ? If I open a photo from
> Nautilus in showfoto, I can't do "next" or "previous" for the others
> photos which are in the same directory...

For this point. I had implemented this feature in 0.9.0 unstable (trunk in
svn). You can open all images from a folder at the same time using GUI. But
we need to add any others implementations :

- one command line option to open all images from on folder using a script.
- make a showfoto DCOP interface.

Any contributors welcome. These tasks aren't very complicated to do, but i'm
very busy on others important digiKam parts.

Gilles
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[Anders Lund]

On Sunday 18 December 2005 11:27, you wrote:

> Le Samedi 17 Décembre 2005 20:08, Anders Lund a écrit :
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I've just added a 'Auto-rotate page' option to ShowFotos printing dialog.
> > When enabled, the page orientation is automatically syncronized with that
> > of the image, saving you from entering the printer properties for that
> > purpose.
>
> Thanks for this job Anders. I'm happy to see that a new contributor will
> improve printing functions.

You are wellcome ;) And I hope more will follow.

> > The change is added to trunk digikam, if you use that version please
> > update and test.
>
> is this possible to backport easily this job to stable branch ?

That should be quite easy, I coded it without the DImage stuff, that would be
similar to branch if i'm not wrong. I'm willing to do the work but i haven't
a build of branch atm, so maybe someone could test if send a patch for
branch?


> > I plan to contribute some improvements to the
> > KIPI image printing wizard in the near future as well.
>
> Great. Welcome in the team !

Ty :)


> Are you  subscribed to digikam-devel ML ?

Uhm, I will, I just subscribed to kde-imaging too.

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Op zondag 18 december 2005 11:42, schreef Caulier Gilles:

> Le Dimanche 18 Décembre 2005 11:21, David BERCOT a écrit :
> > Second, why showfoto could not make a diaporama automatically (like
> > gqview and gthumb) from konqueror or nautilus ? If I open a photo from
> > Nautilus in showfoto, I can't do "next" or "previous" for the others
> > photos which are in the same directory...
>
> For this point. I had implemented this feature in 0.9.0 unstable (trunk in
> svn). You can open all images from a folder at the same time using GUI. But
> we need to add any others implementations :
>
> - one command line option to open all images from on folder using a script.
> - make a showfoto DCOP interface.
>
> Any contributors welcome. These tasks aren't very complicated to do, but
> i'm very busy on others important digiKam parts.

I've backported that ("open a folder") this night to 0.8.1. It does not work
exactly as I like, but I will work on it the next weeks.

Tom

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Op zondag 18 december 2005 11:39, schreef Anders Lund:
> > Thanks for this job Anders. I'm happy to see that a new contributor will
> > improve printing functions.
>
> You are wellcome ;) And I hope more will follow.

Me too. I think printing is important for a lot of users!

> > > The change is added to trunk digikam, if you use that version please
> > > update and test.
> >
> > is this possible to backport easily this job to stable branch ?
>
> That should be quite easy, I coded it without the DImage stuff, that would
> be similar to branch if i'm not wrong. I'm willing to do the work but i
> haven't a build of branch atm, so maybe someone could test if send a patch
> for branch?

I can take care of that. No need to send a patch, I'll get a diff from svn.

Tom

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