Bug 398532

Summary:	Setting margins does not work
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Anders Lund <anderslund>
Component:	Plugin-Generic-PrintCreator	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	caulier.gilles
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	8.1.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Anders Lund 2018-09-12 08:39:02 UTC

When using print creator, setting margins in the "page properties" dialog in the page layout widget is not applied to neither pdf or printer output. Pdfs always have no margins, except if photo is not cropped, printer have the printers minimal margin if borderless is not enabled.

Margins are correctly shown as set in the dialog show when pressing "properties" in the dialog appearing in the final "render printing" step of the wizard.

The tool is missing a proper page preview, it is not possible to see margins in the current preview either.


My printer is a Epson Stylus 1500W, with epson drivers (but as said, the problem also exist when printing to pdf).

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2018-09-12 09:31:04 UTC

The margin settings page is provided by Qt framework.

Which Qt version didi you use ? Look in Help/Components Info for details.

Note : Qt 5.11.1 add several improvements about printing framework. If you use the AppImage bundle, only Qt 5.9.6 is used, and it's not perfect for printing stuff...

Gilles Caulier

Comment 2 Anders Lund 2018-09-12 10:06:36 UTC

I'm running fully updated archlinux.
Digikam 5.9.0
KDE 5.50
Qt 5.11.1

Comment 3 Anders Lund 2018-09-12 10:14:04 UTC

Another observation: printing with gwenview works in this respect. The printing dialog there is similar to the digikam one.

The digikam print tool have a "page layout" page, where it is possible to select printer and set margins, and the margins are transferred to the printer properties dialog, but printer choice is not, I find this a bit confusing.

Somehow, something goes wrong after setting the printer properties and hitting "print", in the digikam version.

Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2020-08-01 16:12:00 UTC

digiKam 7.0.0 stable release is now published and now available as FlatPak:

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-07-19-7.0.0_release_announcement/

We need a fresh feedback on this file using this version.

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier

Comment 5 Anders Lund 2020-08-01 18:20:23 UTC

I have stopped using digikam, because it potentially destroys my files, so I 
will not be able to test. Apart from that I use darktable for printing at this 
point, since I have never been able to get a deacent result using digikam.

Kindly,
Anders
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lørdag den 1. august 2020 18.12.00 CEST skrev du:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398532
> 
> --- Comment #4 from caulier.gilles@gmail.com ---
> digiKam 7.0.0 stable release is now published and now available as FlatPak:
> 
> https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-07-19-7.0.0_release_announcement/
> 
> We need a fresh feedback on this file using this version.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Gilles Caulier

Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2023-05-01 03:02:24 UTC

Not reproducible under Linux with AppImage