> After the hint from François Delègue I tried presets for > multi-image > layouts. > First I noticed, that I can't create a "print", if there is no > printer > reachable.-( After I switched one printer on, I have to restart > dt, to > notice this printer. It seems for me that dt only recognizes > printers, > which are "reachable" at startup. It would be nicer, if the search > for > printers is done every time, when the print view is selected. I > think > (or hope) it's not a long task.
This is one which has bothered/interested me for a while. There's already similar code (if I recall) to detect when a tethered camera is plugged in after startup. > Second I noticed, that the maximum of 20 images per page are not > very > much. I hoped, that I can use the multi-image layout for something > like > a contact sheet. Interesting! I would never have thought of this. I do wonder if it would be annoying to by hand drag images to each box on the layout. Another limitation of the current printing is that one can only select a single image to print. It would be interesting if one could select multiple images and then they'd be laid out contact-sheet-style? > (I know that Holger Klemm (from multimedia4linux.de) made a > lua-script > for such a thing.-) That sounds great. I'm curious how it is implemented. > I created a (test) layout on a A4 (landscape) page with 4*3 > (quadratic > 70*70) image areas. That preset works well. > But another preset on a A4 (portrait) page with 4*5 (quadratic > 52*52) > image areas is much scrambled after storing it and loading it > again. > It seems for me, that the presets are stored in data.db as a BLOB, > so I can't find out quickly, what went wrong. You may have some control of this. Try adjusting "store XMP tags in compressed format" in the storage tab of preferences to "never". > I think you are right: the multi-image layouts should be kept too. > However for me it would be "enough", that I can switch between > multiple > views in one session without losing the print settings. But indeed > it > would be (much) nicer, if those settings aren't lost between > multiple > sessions.-) > I'm not sure if a feature request is a good idea (but I can try > it). A feature request would be quite helpful. It's a good way to keep track of these things! > François reckoned "dt developers have surely more important things > to do ?" It depends... I'm very interested in the print view (though short of time). ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
