[Gimp-print-devel] layout

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

I finally got tired enough of all the stupid layout bugs so that I
decided to sit down and fix them all (well, there's still one left;
it's possible to overflow the page in dpi mode).  Specifically:

1) It wasn't possible to print to the edge of the page (as defined by
   the printer).

2) The page top/bottom/left/right (particularly bottom and right) in
   the size boxes wasn't displayed accurately (it *had* been coded in
   1/10", because that's the units used to print out the pager --
   really sillyl, that -- now it's all in points, which is more
   reasonable if still not all that precise).

3) The behavior of landscape mode was weird, to say the least.

4) Calculating the size based on scaling was also weird -- in portrait
   mode it just looked at the height of the page vs. the height of the
   image, and in landscape it just looked at width of the page and
   height of the image.  Now it looks at both axes and scales so that
   the larger of the two ratios (widths and heights) is set equal to
   the scale factor.  That seems more intuitive to me, at any rate.
   It avoids flipping between landscape and portrait mode as you
   rescale the image in auto mode (which seems just plain bizarre to
   me).

5) I changed the escp2 stuff so that the distance from the paper edge
   will be identical in softweave and in microweave mode.  Henryk,
   that might not quite be what you intended (it's the opposite of
   what you actually did), but at least microweave and softweave
   should generate stuff that looks consistent.

I might fix the bottom edge in softweave mode tonight, or maybe not.
I'm pretty sure it's leaving more space than it needs to, but I'll
have to experiment to find out what's safe.

-- 
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