Created attachment 165288 [details] Overlapping text and images. SUMMARY The PrintCreator has the following issues: 1. It sometimes places the caption into the image, see the screenshot in `overlap.png`. 2. It sometimes places the images very close to one corner instead of centering everything in the middle. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Have some pictures ready. 2. Start the PrintCreator plugin. 3. Set the page to A4 4. Select Custom page layout of 4x4 (for overlapping caption) or 6.0x4.3cm (for off-center positioning) 5. Set caption to file name 6. Do not crop images (don't know if that matters) 7. Print to PDF. OBSERVED RESULT 1. Text overlaps. 2. Images are very close to the border, possibly over the printing margin. EXPECTED RESULT The opposite. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian 12 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Created attachment 165289 [details] uncentered images on page
Additional notes: 1. I was able to reproduce this with the 8.2.0 AppImage. Are there nightly images of development versions? 2. I tried to add an additional newline before the text with the custom string `.\n%f` (the dot is there just as a marker). To no avail, it seems like the whole text element is aligned to its bottom (the `.` is even further up the image).
Further experimentation shows: 1. Setting a custom photo size in the custom layout, that is far wider than required for the photos helps. For example 7.5x4.9 instead of 7.5x4.3 (corresponding to 3:2 image ratio) seems to leave enough space for the text. Maybe the text should not be rendered into the image box in the first place? 2. The margins which are set in the page settings are completely ignored, but maybe that should be a different bug report?
(In reply to quazgar from comment #3) > required for the photos helps. For example 7.5x4.9 instead of 7.5x4.3 Typo: 6.5 instead of 7.5 here.
which digiKam version did you use ?
Git commit 8b415c51c4e3c48f28989100b5957c2328004603 by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 27/01/2024 at 21:09. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. fix center in custom layout when cm is used M +12 -10 core/dplugins/generic/tools/printcreator/wizard/advprintphotopage.cpp https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/8b415c51c4e3c48f28989100b5957c2328004603
I cannot reproduce the problem with overlapping text. What image aspect ratio does your example use? What font and size have you set? Maik
A note, because I'm just now reading your other comments, it is intended that the text appears in the image. Maik
Created attachment 165291 [details] smaple image with 3:2 aspect ratio
(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #7) > I cannot reproduce the problem with overlapping text. What image aspect > ratio does your example use? What font and size have you set? I just added sample image with 3:2 ratio. Font is Noto Sans (but doesn't seem to matter), size seems to be the second smallest.
(In reply to caulier.gilles from comment #5) > which digiKam version did you use ? Originally ShowFoto 7.9.0, but I downloaded the 8.2.0 AppImage and reproduced everything there.
Created attachment 165292 [details] Resulting PDF with the overlapping text.
(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #8) > A note, because I'm just now reading your other comments, it is intended > that the text appears in the image. Ok, so if the design decision is to have text and image overlap, then I feel it should be possible to set a background color for the text as well, for example to have a rectangle of the bg color as background to the text itself. If you feel this is easier, we could also have a conversation over IRC, I will try to be online in #digikam over the next few days.