Size entry widgets..
* 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