Trinity 14.0.6 preliminary. Don't know if it is a feature of ksnapshot or a misconfiguration somewhere from me, but it is getting absolutely annoying what happens. I have a website, a document or whatsoever on my screen in full A4-papersize. Now I want a printout of a small part of it. Call ksnapshot, choose "region" "new snapshot" and then draw a border around the desired part. Press "print" and then print it. Bull... I get a print in landscape, useless and even worse not even the original layout reappears. Stop ksnapshot, restart it and same procedure with again the same miserable result. Stop, restart, same procedure but no actual printing, instead I look into the printer properties. And there, big surprise, landscape was marked as to be printed BUT all 4 orientations were grayed out, so I couldn't change that. Checked in tdeprint the printersettings, nothing wrong, in "instances" "settings" all 4 orientations were available and portrait was marked as to be applied in the default printer. Checked kprinter and of course the settings of tdeprint were there also valid. But then I had an idea. If I selected in ksnapshot a larger part of the screen, say more than half A4, what would happen? Yes, some ugly words from me and there it was: portrait was marked but still all 4 possibilities grayed out. So ksnapshot decides how it wants to print and doesn't leave the user a chance to get a result, that he wants. Utterly bull.... Any suggestion, where I could look to alter this behaviour? Phiebie.
phiebie@drei.at wrote:
Don't know if it is a feature of ksnapshot or a misconfiguration
So ksnapshot decides how it wants to print and doesn't leave the user
Yes, it looks like page orientation is based on the proportions of your selected area and that the area is centered and scaled relative to page size.
Saving snapshot images is WYSIWYG (and will print at the top left corner).
Clipboard to kolorpaint would allow scaling, page positioning and multiple snaps per page. A page proportionate base image helps.
On 2019-03-19 08:32:00 phiebie@drei.at wrote:
Trinity 14.0.6 preliminary. Don't know if it is a feature of ksnapshot or a misconfiguration somewhere from me, but it is getting absolutely annoying what happens. I have a website, a document or whatsoever on my screen in full A4-papersize. Now I want a printout of a small part of it. Call ksnapshot, choose "region" "new snapshot" and then draw a border around the desired part. Press "print" and then print it. Bull... I get a print in landscape, useless and even worse not even the original layout reappears. Stop ksnapshot, restart it and same procedure with again the same miserable result. Stop, restart, same procedure but no actual printing, instead I look into the printer properties. And there, big surprise, landscape was marked as to be printed BUT all 4 orientations were grayed out, so I couldn't change that. Checked in tdeprint the printersettings, nothing wrong, in "instances" "settings" all 4 orientations were available and portrait was marked as to be applied in the default printer. Checked kprinter and of course the settings of tdeprint were there also valid. But then I had an idea. If I selected in ksnapshot a larger part of the screen, say more than half A4, what would happen? Yes, some ugly words from me and there it was: portrait was marked but still all 4 possibilities grayed out. So ksnapshot decides how it wants to print and doesn't leave the user a chance to get a result, that he wants. Utterly bull.... Any suggestion, where I could look to alter this behaviour? Phiebie.
That's nasty. I wasn't aware that I could print directly from KSnapshot; I've always saved those images to disk and printed them from something else.
Leslie
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On 2019/03/19 10:32 PM, phiebie@drei.at wrote:
Trinity 14.0.6 preliminary. Don't know if it is a feature of ksnapshot or a misconfiguration somewhere from me, but it is getting absolutely annoying what happens. I have a website, a document or whatsoever on my screen in full A4-papersize. Now I want a printout of a small part of it. Call ksnapshot, choose "region" "new snapshot" and then draw a border around the desired part. Press "print" and then print it. Bull... I get a print in landscape, useless and even worse not even the original layout reappears. Stop ksnapshot, restart it and same procedure with again the same miserable result. Stop, restart, same procedure but no actual printing, instead I look into the printer properties. And there, big surprise, landscape was marked as to be printed BUT all 4 orientations were grayed out, so I couldn't change that. Checked in tdeprint the printersettings, nothing wrong, in "instances" "settings" all 4 orientations were available and portrait was marked as to be applied in the default printer. Checked kprinter and of course the settings of tdeprint were there also valid. But then I had an idea. If I selected in ksnapshot a larger part of the screen, say more than half A4, what would happen? Yes, some ugly words from me and there it was: portrait was marked but still all 4 possibilities grayed out. So ksnapshot decides how it wants to print and doesn't leave the user a chance to get a result, that he wants. Utterly bull.... Any suggestion, where I could look to alter this behaviour? Phiebie.
This sounds like a bug. Opened issue in TGW https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdegraphics/issues/8
Cheers Michele
Hello,
I didn't follow the subject, sorry.
To make a good ksnapshot, I put the icon in the down taskbar on the left. So, I have all the screen above to do a good screenshot.
After, with Gimp, I trim the needed part of the recorded picture.
No founded to do it immediately with ksnapshot.
Regards,
André
andre_debian@numericable.fr wrote:
After, with Gimp, I trim the needed part of the recorded picture.
No founded to do it immediately with ksnapshot.
Capture mode: Region works well unless you need to do something that requires the Snapshot delay:, e.g. a snapshot that includes a dropdown menu.
Kolourpaint is easier/quicker than Gimp for trimming - Rectangle select (top/right tool) > Selection crop (Ctrl T) > Save (Ctrl S).
On Monday 25 March 2019 01:55:01 Dave Lers wrote:
Capture mode: Region works well unless you need to do something that requires the Snapshot delay:, e.g. a snapshot that includes a dropdown menu.
No possibility to trim only a part of the screenshot directly with Ksnapshot ?
Kolourpaint is easier/quicker than Gimp for trimming - Rectangle select (top/right tool) > Selection crop (Ctrl T) > Save (Ctrl S).
Yes, Kolourpaint is easier and quicker than Gimp, but not so sophisticated.
André
Thanks to the work of Emanoil, this has been fixed. See https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdegraphics/issues/8 for the issue report and https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdegraphics/pulls/54 for the fix.
Cheers Michele
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