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#21 Print output options
I've read the documentation and seen one mention of using Viking to print out maps with tracks on them, but no more detail than this. I'd like to know what the options are for printing from the application. I'm a Mac user but could find myself a Linux machine to use if there were a print option that I could use.
Any more detail on how to print would be much appreciated in the documentation.
thanks - looks like a terrific and useful application.
Standard Print uses what is displayed on the current map view for printing: i.e. what ever map, tracks and waypoints that are in view. including the cross hairs and the scale.
It uses a standard 'image' print using an image the size of the current viewport in pixels terms. Here you can move the image around the page and scale the image up / or down on the Print Preview (or Image Settings on Windows) section.
An advanced mode is available via File->Generate Image File** that allows generation of larger (pixel) area images. From the generated image you can use the facilities of the OS to print the image.
I'll add this to the User Manual.
** I need to expand to detail on this
Added in Release 1.4
Commit SHA1: 7bb499bc0995b5f7ed8e9bfd299447a08adc9974
I've been trying to print some maps and get some results only by awkward trial and error.
1st of all, the map image from window filled about 40% of page in print dialogue. how to fill the page?
"Page setup > Scale" set at 100% but "Image settings" reports 42% image size.
finally I found out that scale 200% and drag image to top left corner will print larger 1/2 page A4, on portrait. But if landscape, I need to put image in top right corner!
You mention that "Here you can move the image around the page and scale the image up / or down on the Print Preview"
I can move the image about but I can't scale it (on Image Settings tab). I can only scale it on the Page settings tab, and then I can't see the image. Is this reproducable for any one else?
If so I'd sure like a simpler and wysiwyg preview - ie if I select 200% I'd like to see the preview showing image filling page. as it is it stays at "42%" but if I print at center the page might be blank - I have to drag the image into a corner in order to get it printed and centered.
Last edit: dav 2013-10-10
The print dialog does seem a bit dumb. It seems the default image size is related to the visible screen size (i.e. it does a 1 to 1 pixel mapping).
However I can force it to be 100% page size be default - which seems the sane default.
I think there is a bug in the using the scale values if larger than 100%, I need to investigate further to determine what is exactly wrong here. (If the default above is 100% - then it makes the scale more redundant)
Note the "Page setup > Scale" does not effect the image drawn in the 'Image Setting' tab. Values from the two tabs are combined for the actual print preview (when you select the Print Preview button).
I believe this is standard GNOME print behaviour, e.g. compare this to eog or gimp - it is the exactly same behaviour. So unfortunately the image shown in the 'Image Settings' is not WYSIWYG - only in the resulting print preview.
'Image Settings->Image Size' works for me (under Linux). I can check a Windows version later on.
Playing around with 'Page setup-> Scale' -> yes you can scale the whole page (e.g by 300%) such that if the image is small (i.e. there is blank space to the left) in the 'Image Settings' then the actual image is scaled off the printable area as the printed area is the 'blank space'.
This is 'by design' - even if it this seems rather strange.
In summary - use 'Image Settings->Image Size' (if you can).
Oh dear, it appears I have been dumber than the print dialogue, indeed!
My GTK colour scheme happens to be rather dark and the slider under the "image size" was pretty much invisible, without mouse-over and highlight, and I must have missed it with pointer....
so I thought "image size" was a bit redundant!!
finding the slider I now realise that is exactly the behaviour I thought the dialogue should have! ATM it looks like it is WYSIWYG, except my printer is packed away now (I have to keep the place tidy) so I will do more testing another time.
so sorry to raise a false bug flag!
printing to file the page is filled ok with image scaled up