Paint Shop Pro support - PSP9 - printing selection only

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PSP9 - printing selection only

Dougie Nisbet

2007-05-13, 6:17 pm

Until I can afford an A3 printer I find myself arseing about with
cropping and printing then undoing. Is there a better way?

What I do is crop a selection of my image, print it to fit on A4, then
Undo. I did spend some time investigating whether it was possible to
print a selection or just part of my image but I don't think it's
possible (I would love to be proved wrong). My method works until the
day I forget to Undo and then I'LL BE SORRY.

Dougie

Trev

2007-05-13, 6:17 pm

"Dougie Nisbet" <dougie@highmoor.co.uk> wrote in message
news:46475989$0$19262$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk...
> Until I can afford an A3 printer I find myself arseing about with
> cropping and printing then undoing. Is there a better way?
>
> What I do is crop a selection of my image, print it to fit on A4, then
> Undo. I did spend some time investigating whether it was possible to
> print a selection or just part of my image but I don't think it's
> possible (I would love to be proved wrong). My method works until the
> day I forget to Undo and then I'LL BE SORRY.
>
> Dougie

You can make a selection the copy and paste as a new image then select the
next quarter until you have 4 new images and then print them. My printer
will do it automatically and I believe There is some software that will
print posters.
http://www.ronyasoft.com/products/proposter/index.html

jaci.coningham@gmail.com

2007-05-13, 6:17 pm

Why don't you take your images to a print shop and print directly on
A3 paper?

Dougie Nisbet

2007-05-13, 6:17 pm

Trev wrote:

>
> You can make a selection the copy and paste as a new image then select the
> next quarter until you have 4 new images and then print them. My printer
> will do it automatically and I believe There is some software that will
> print posters.
> http://www.ronyasoft.com/products/proposter/index.html
>

Thanks for the pointer, I'll follow that up. I could paste as a new
image I suppose but I'm not sure I have the self-discipline, and, more
to the point, your reply makes me realise I was a bit sloppy about
phrasing my question in the OP.

I'm finding at the moment that I often want to print just a small part
of my image. It started from wanting to print A3 but as I tinker I find
I want to zoom in on specific areas from time to time and print just
that selection. I should add that the image is not a photograph, it's a
multi-layered map that I am constantly editing and wanting to print
occasional snapshots of certain areas. I save different versions about
once a week depending on how much I'm changing.

Unless I want a nasty accident I'd best get into the habit of pasting
into new images and printing those. It's surprisingly easy to crop, then
tweak, then tweak again, then tweak just once more, and forget that
there's a lorra undoing to do.

But in a nutshell, I assume I'm right in that it's not possible to print
a selection of certain part of an image without pasting into a new image.

Dougie

Trev

2007-05-13, 6:17 pm

"Dougie Nisbet" <dougie@highmoor.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Trev wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for the pointer, I'll follow that up. I could paste as a new image
> I suppose but I'm not sure I have the self-discipline, and, more to the
> point, your reply makes me realise I was a bit sloppy about phrasing my
> question in the OP.
>
> I'm finding at the moment that I often want to print just a small part of
> my image. It started from wanting to print A3 but as I tinker I find I
> want to zoom in on specific areas from time to time and print just that
> selection. I should add that the image is not a photograph, it's a
> multi-layered map that I am constantly editing and wanting to print
> occasional snapshots of certain areas. I save different versions about
> once a week depending on how much I'm changing.
>
> Unless I want a nasty accident I'd best get into the habit of pasting into
> new images and printing those. It's surprisingly easy to crop, then tweak,
> then tweak again, then tweak just once more, and forget that there's a
> lorra undoing to do.
>
> But in a nutshell, I assume I'm right in that it's not possible to print a
> selection of certain part of an image without pasting into a new image.
>
> Dougie

Thats correct you can not. Good thing too or we might print an image and
find it had a selection of a tiny bit and that was all that got printed