fist off, if there is an exchange place more suitable for the question, please address me.
I'm designing some labels in gimp.
I created a A4 300dpi document and created the artwork, arranged them to use all the page. To measure the labels I create a rectangle with the "rectangle selection tool" and there one can inspect the size in cm:
I printed straight from gimp and to my surprise, the printed labels where smaller than designed. I assumed somehow someone along the line added margins to my already A4 document..
I tried saving to PDF and then printing the PDF, very similar results.
I'd say the difference is around 5%
What would be the appropriated method for printing exactly at the size I created the document ignoring any margins ??
I'm using Windows 10, HP ENVY 5010 and Gimp 2.10
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I have a problem on impression of tickets in continuous paper thermal printer. I have done a report with paper size "custom", height 50 cm and I have checked "Endless page height" option, but when I print the ticket, it ends when he has a height of a Din A4 page.
Any idea why? I need to configure any more?
I use FastReport 5 in Seattle 10
I have searched info about this but nothing found.
try to mark check Large height in design mode, not Endless page height in report options, and set paper size = custom, with correct width and height (in your case 50 cm).
I have exactly the same problem without founded yet a solution until today that I'm working with C++Builder 11.1.
As a work-around, I divided the entire long report into some few different groups, each of them printed onto a new page. The grouping could be by category or some other valid concept for the user, if any.
The resulting report is going to be few pages cut at a small length than the original, but it will allow to show the whole expected information. It is not what I wanted originally but is a valid alternative solution for me.
Do you finally found a solution to reach your objective to print the report on a longer than Din A4 page?
I am printing some custom drawn charts on a fast Reports 4 databand.
The band has one text component and one picture component which I manipulate in the OnBeforePrint event to draw my charts using its canvas.
The problem is that the width of the charts may change drastically and go far beyond the page width and scaling/streching the charts to fit the page limits is not an option for the user.
I tried to make the page width grow to accommodate the graphics and it worked very well while visualizing, but I cannot print it since the user's printer only accepts A4 paper size.
So how can I split the report in smaller A4 pieces like the following image?
PS: the first image is the actual report output and the second one is the desired result.
I'm trying to use the print() function on a Highstock chart, but its not printing well when my chart is very large (almost full screen, for example 1800x1000 pixels),
The problem is that it prints over multiple pages, and also most part of the right half of the chart gets cut off...
Is there a way to resize the chart before printing (but not resize on screen), or is there some sort of "scale to fit page" functionality?
Basically I just want it to look nice on a4 / letter paper format.
Take a look at the exporting parameters here. You can specify scale and sourceWidth and sourceHeight. As for "look nice" you will have to play around with the sizes until you reach this subjective goal.
I've got a latex macro that draws a picture using PGF and Tikz according to given parameters. The width of picture drawn depends on these parameters.
PGF automatically calculates the resulting width of any picture drawn so the user does not have to set it explicitly(like for example when using latex build in picture environment).
However I need to know the width of picture that will be drawn. Of cause I could calculate it as the PGF does but this is going to be quite some work(a lot of if statements...). Is there a way to ask PGF what is the width of picture that is to be drawn (some command I expect)? Either inside tikzpicture environment or just after it?
Thanks for help.
What I would probably do is put the tikzpicture environment in a box, and then find the width of the box:
\setbox0=\vbox{\hbox{%
\begin{tikzpicture}
% ...
\end{tizpicture}%
}}
The width of the following picture is {\the\wd0}.
\box0
Note that after you run \box0, the box will be inserted into the document and its contents will be destroyed; you thus need to query the width of the box before you do that. If you want to save the width, you can store it in a dimension register with \dimen0=\wd0; alternatively, you can use \copybox0, which inserts the box but doesn't destroy it (although this might leak memory).
Also, having played with some of this before, I found that using just a \vbox caused the box to always be the full width of the page (which, if you think about it, makes sense); however, using just an \hbox caused the unboxing to fail for some reason (it seemed to be a known pug). Using both like this works, however—I'm using something very much like this to render TikZ pictures to PDF files of precisely the right size.
I mean the whole paper, not only the text zone in it.
I want the dvi output to look 1 centimetre x 10 metres in the viewer if
I set these dimensions in the tex file.
And I don't want to go through LaTeX for it.
Add \special{papersize=1cm,1000cm} in the first page of the document. This is really a dvips extension, but many dvi viewers understand it. (And of course set \hsize, \vsize etc. to control the positioning of text.)
A couple of useful links:
The size of printed output and
Getting the right paper geometry from (La)TeX.
Of course, googling is much more efficient once I get the answer.