Paint Shop Pro support - Print preview

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Print preview - bug?

Terry Pinnell

2004-10-23, 7:14 pm

I've just printed a couple of passport photos, 35 mm x 45 mm.

Although I'm more comfortable with PSP7, I used PSP8, being for this,
as it proved easier to get the size right. (The application form
insists on exactly 35 x 45 mm.)

However, is there still some obvious bug in the PSP 8.10 print
preview?

Precisely following Help's instructions, after opening the Print
dialog, with my printer selected (default), on the Placement tab I
then selected Portrait and, after a little trial and error, entered
the size of the image. But what I saw at this stage was clearly
incorrect:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/...P8Printing1.gif

As you see, despite Portrait mode having been selected, the preview is
shown as Landscape, and the passport photos are 'squashed'.

I went ahead and clicked Print, and the result was fine.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

Trev

2004-10-23, 11:14 pm

"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> I've just printed a couple of passport photos, 35 mm x 45 mm.
>
> Although I'm more comfortable with PSP7, I used PSP8, being for this,
> as it proved easier to get the size right. (The application form
> insists on exactly 35 x 45 mm.)
>
> However, is there still some obvious bug in the PSP 8.10 print
> preview?
>
> Precisely following Help's instructions, after opening the Print
> dialog, with my printer selected (default), on the Placement tab I
> then selected Portrait and, after a little trial and error, entered
> the size of the image. But what I saw at this stage was clearly
> incorrect:
> http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/...P8Printing1.gif
>
> As you see, despite Portrait mode having been selected, the preview is
> shown as Landscape, and the passport photos are 'squashed'.
>
> I went ahead and clicked Print, and the result was fine.
>
> --
> Terry, West Sussex, UK

My curiosity is wetted. If you created them the correct size why scale them
to 14. 7 why not get it right in psp and print at 100 %

Terry Pinnell

2004-10-25, 7:14 am

Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:

>I've just printed a couple of passport photos, 35 mm x 45 mm.
>
>Although I'm more comfortable with PSP7, I used PSP8, being for this,
>as it proved easier to get the size right. (The application form
>insists on exactly 35 x 45 mm.)
>
>However, is there still some obvious bug in the PSP 8.10 print
>preview?
>
>Precisely following Help's instructions, after opening the Print
>dialog, with my printer selected (default), on the Placement tab I
>then selected Portrait and, after a little trial and error, entered
>the size of the image. But what I saw at this stage was clearly
>incorrect:
>http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/...P8Printing1.gif
>
>As you see, despite Portrait mode having been selected, the preview is
>shown as Landscape, and the passport photos are 'squashed'.
>
>I went ahead and clicked Print, and the result was fine.

No one able to confirm or otherwise please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

Fred Hiltz

2004-10-25, 12:14 pm

Terry Pinnell wrote:
> Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> No one able to confirm or otherwise please?

I tried both PSP 8.10 (US) and PSP 9.00 (US). Both work fine here
with an NEC SuperScript 870 printer. Is PSP 8 current with Jasc
patches?

Try installing a different printer for a test (it need not be
present for this). If the problem goes away, then your printer
driver is fibbing to PSP 8.

Try asking on the Jasc forum. Someone in the larger group there
might have a better suggestion.
--
Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com