[Leica] Imageprint newbie page rotation

Ken Carney kcarney1 at cox.net
Mon Mar 16 16:29:16 PDT 2015


When I used IP I got some help from the Yahoo ColorByte forum, though 
it's been somewhat quiet lately.  As I recall there was a thread showing 
how to soft-proof b&w.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/colorbyte_imageprint/info

Ken

On 3/16/2015 5:35 PM, Lew Schwartz wrote:
> I want to do this because when I make a 10x15 print of a landscape on
> 13x19 paper, I don't want to have to twist my neck 90 degrees in order
> to eyeball what I'm doing. Tech support at ColorByte confirms that
> there's no way to change the orientation. They are worried that their
> customers might become confused  the printer lead edge moved to screen
> right rather than screen bottom.
>
> Here's why I want to do this:
> 1. There's more elbow room for setting the black point than in LR
> 2. I want to print title and my name under each image ... can't do
> this easily in LR, and turning everything 90 degrees in IP is a PITA.
> 3. I will experiment with the split toning capabilities. They are way
> more sophisticated than LR.
>
> Both products are seriously lacking in the annotation dept. In LR, I
> guess you make multiple virtual copies ... but how do you tell one
> from another w/o studying the panel settings? This is especially
> annoying when you're evaluating slight changes in a single control,
> plus it's too easy to absently mindedly change one of them when you're
> casually considering what-would-happen-if's. I try to print on paper
> big enough to keep notes in the margins.
>
>
> -Lew Schwartz
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Let me know what happens Lew. My guess is that it will expect you to feed
>> the paper into your printer in landscape orientation: that's why I've never
>> used it. I think that's why there's no landscape orientation out of the
>> box...
>>
>> Curious as to why you want to do this. I do virtually no adjustments in IP
>> other than maybe selection the black point compensation. The reason I don't
>> do much is that there is no way to save any adjustments you do in IP so you
>> either have to remember or take notes to create the exact same print. I
>> guess you could always reprint from Spoolface, but that's a PITA to keep
>> track of especially if you print, adjust in IP, reprint, etc. The file name
>> remains the same and you have multiple items in the Spooler with the same
>> name.
>>
>> So wondering why you want to do this...
>> Best,
>> Bob
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Lew,
>>> In the dashboard under paper there is a LetterLand option which will give
>>> you a canvas that is letter sized and landscape oriented.
>>> You can create user defined profiles that will do the same for you for any
>>> sized paper.
>>> Best,
>>> Bob
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That rotated the image, so horizon lines are vertical. I want to
>>>> rotate the work space to landscape orientation.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> -Lew Schwartz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:07 AM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> from the top menu, View->Tools should be checked. It opens up a very
>>>>> important tool box with two rotation icons, clockwise and counter.
>>>>> Yes?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> I wonder if any LUGers can help out. I just took the rather steep
>>>>>> plunge into ImagePrint and I'm stumped right out of the box. Most of
>>>>>> the stuff I have to print in the near future is landscape oriented.
>>>>>> ImagePrint seems somewhat dogmatic in representing the sheet in
>>>>>> portrait orientation. Annoying since I want to see how stuff looks in
>>>>>> landscape mode with title, etc... underneath. Is there a way to rotate
>>>>>> the page representation?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (I know there are some wiseacres out there who will recommend waiting
>>>>>> until it comes out of the printer and turning the print ... or just do
>>>>>> my editing while laying horizontally. I mention this to save time.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Lew Schwartz
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Bob Adler
>>>>> www.robertadlerphotography.com
>>>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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>>
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