Simon Dominic

I managed a workaround by creating an A4 template with borders top and bottom, and placing the image at exact coordinates within that. Even so, the Epson 7720 is so abysmal that the position varies by 1/2 cm even when printing A4 to A4, meaning I have to use 1.5cm bleed all around.

I did, I tried Corel Painter and the same thing happened. Tried PSD, PNG and PDF with the same result.

The only other one I tried was Corel Painter, as my day-to-day s/w doesn't have a print function. I thought it might be the printer because when I printed two copies in a single print, and the first is OK and the second incorrect, I guess it must be the printer because the s/w will only give one instruction for both copies, it can't change that part way through.

Looks like it's actually the printer. To be honest I'm not surprised, the Epson 7720 is a pile of stink. Time to invest in a decent one (although it's only three months old I'll be glad to see it go).

I'm trying using another s/w. I'll come back and update the thread in a couple of weeks, or sooner, either way (if it's the printer or if it's Photo).

Nope, that didn't work. It's almost every time now.

Yep, I'm trying PDF right now. It's strange because the first 25-ish time I tried it, it worked fine. Now I've just had three misprints in six tries. I've also set the page size and orientation explicitly, so maybe that will help, although I can't see why it would change between one copy and the next on the same print run. We'll see what happens. Thanks.

(I think this is in the wrong forum, so feel free to move it) I have the problem where Photo is randomly (one time in 5 maybe) printing output in the wrong position on the page. I have a 3.9 x 2.9 inch (300dpi) image and go to print it at 100% scaling. The preview shows it in the centre of the page but when it prints, it is sometimes right at the top. At first I thought I was changing a setting by accident, but proved this was not the case by printing two copies. The first came out OK (central), the second not (top). It's more of a problem than it sounds because I'm printing on bespoke, pre-prepared stock, so every failure costs me quite a bit of money, and time. Anyone any idea what's messing up here? Could the printer driver be at fault? It's an Epson 7720.

Thanks, that might work for what I want, as long as I can align the nodes to avoid kinks.

Being new to vector stuff I'm stuck with the following: Is there any way to join a shape to itself? So for example, using nodes, can I somehow create the shape on the right from the shape on the left? I know I could fudge it, e.g. by creating another shape and 'adding' it to the first, I'm wondering if there's a better way. When I just drag the shape over itself it XORs, which is obviously what it should do as it's interpreting the path, but not what I'm after.

Thanks for those suggestions, they will certainly make things easier. I hope in some future upgrade there will be full mirroring of vectors and shapes, it would make things so much quicker.

Thanks, I'll check that out.

Thanks. I don't actually have that option (v1.7.3.481), only 'Documents open in a new floating window', so I checked that it this solves the problem of windows opening 'joined' to the existing last used.

Thanks, that's helpful, I've not used symbols so I'll look into that. What I'd request in some future update are, therefore, things along the following lines: 1) Vector symmetry 2) Raster shapes (with symmetry)* 3) Mirroring raster lines constrained by a marquee I was thinking along the lines of a method that can draw both lines and circles. So maybe you click and drag whilst holding down a key - this sets the radius - and when you release key your line is constrained to an arc with that specific radius until you lift off. That way you could draw freehand arcs, circles and maybe even spirals. All with symmetry of course.

It might have been transitory. What happened is I went back in and closed down an image. Minimising had the same effect but this time navigator itself was minimised on the desktop (just the title bar). I went back in and opened another image and this time TWO navigators appeared, both of which were blank and did not respond to image content. I closed them down, used View to show the navigator again, minimised the application and Designer crashed and disappeared. Oddly enough there is no record of the crash in Event Viewer, but Designer itself recognised the crash because it asked me on restart if I wanted to upload crash details automatically. Restarting, it now behaves as expected. So make of that what you will