On 27 Mar 2002, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:

* Yosh said it would be doable, not impossible. And told me to post to the list instead of dreaming of it on IRC :-)

Sounds like a good idea. Can you file it as a wishlist bugzilla as well?

Rockwalrus

* Tuomas Kuosmanen [020327 16:10]:

Howdy.

I have been thinking about this thing for a while already.. pretty often I have a situation like this:

* I will need to design a flyer or something, and try to fit it on a common papersize so it can be photocopied/color-lasered easily
* But the size is too large, so I rather design a "cut A4 in three" (or US Letter depending where it will be printed) * A4 is 209.9028mm x 297.0389mm * My design would then be 209.9028mm x (297.0389mm / 3) which makes a nice flyer shape
* It would be very very handy if I could type that into the New Image entry; Height: [ 297/3 ] millimeters and Gimp would do the division for me and round it to the nearest pixel. * It would allow the very basic math like add, subtract, multiply and divide. This would be very useful for situations like the above.
* Yosh said it would be doable, not impossible. And told me to post to the list instead of dreaming of it on IRC :-)

I have been doing some posters/flyers as well,. some of my experiences are:

* Most printers won't fill the whole A4 area. (thus being able to 'register' some default sizes as well could be an idea)
* My workflow for posters that will be printed on a laser printer is: - make a new grayscale image with the same size ratio as A4/A3 - fullfil the design
- scale the image up to the full res of the 'printable area' - manually newsprintifying, dithering etc. the image down to 1bit

Some presets that gimp should include: papersizes: legal, a*, printable( legal, a.. ) video: pal, ntsc, 1024x768 ...
dias: (I had to make a 35mm diases for print) misc: icon sizes, default web-banner sizes custom: users own

-pippin

On Wednesday, 27 Mar 2002, Øyvind Kolås wrote:

* My workflow for posters that will be printed on a laser printer is: - make a new grayscale image with the same size ratio as A4/A3 - fullfil the design
- scale the image up to the full res of the 'printable area' - manually newsprintifying, dithering etc. the image down to 1bit

Warning: the newsprint plugin does nothing to avoid moire artefacts other than offer an antialias option. It doesn't use supercells to reduce rounding errors. Therefore, if you're using it to produce 1-bit output (and hence can't use antialiasing) then you should expect poor quality output. The newsprint plugin is suitable for producing (eg) silk-screens for t-shirt designs, or special effects, but not for printed flyers, in my opinion.

Austin