[Bf-committers] Quick proposal for "Print Size" settings mode

[Johnny Matthews]

Alex, 

I think these are great ideas! One addition would be a user Pref for Metric 
/ English ( I know all you euro's are cringing ) but Letter will always be 
8.5x11 to me. 




On 5/8/05, Alexander Ewering <blender at instinctive.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> Here's a quick proposal for a very compact and easy to port feature from
> instinctive-blender, for potential inclusion into the next version. It's
> - in my opinion - pretty overseeable and troublefree, so I would be able
> to sneak it in into the next release :)
> 
> http://pub.intrr.org/printsets.png
> 
> Basically, a new mode is introduced into the scene buttons, which
> replaces the following buttons:
> 
> SizeX, SizeY, AspX, AspY, and the Preset buttons
> 
> with:
> 
> mmX, mmY, DPI, Flip, Bleed
> 
> This adds easier support for setting a specific size for taking your
> render to the print stage.
> 
> When in this new mode, changing mmX, mmY or DPI will calculate the
> new pixel size and put it into the rectx and recty variables. "Flip"
> just swaps the two sizes and is a nice quick way to flip between
> "Portrait" and "Landscape" after choosing one of the presets (A4,
> A5, etc.) on the right.
> 
> "Bleed" is the border area added around the image on each side, for
> cutting the printout. For example, setting Bleed to 2mm will increase
> both the horizontal and vertical size by 4mm each.
> 
> Of course, if you would like to view the resulting pixel size of
> your image, you can switch the "Print" toggle off, and you will
> see the usual pixel dimensions that have been calculated.
> 
> With the new code, the DPI setting is also correctly written to
> JPEG, BMP and PNG files. They will instantly print in the correct
> dimensions.
> For other file formats, I didn't quickly find if they have the
> required "DPI" field.
> 
> There is a *lot* of confusion about things like DPI, print size,
> and the like. I've tried to be as clear as possible here. If
> any questions remain, feel free to ask :)
> 
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Johnny Matthews
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