jameslbirke Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 I printed a small image for the first time today. It printed in the center of an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper. I can't figure out how to position the image so that it will print in the upper left-hand corner of the paper Paint shop Pro has a feature called print layout where you can do this and much more. Does Affinity photo have a similar feature? Thanks. Jim Birke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Assuming you are using Affinity Photo, if you resize your canvas to the size of your paper being used then position the "small image" on the canvas where you would want it printed on the paper. That should work but my printer is awaiting ink at the moment so cant test it Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 5 minutes ago, carl123 said: Assuming you are using Affinity Photo, if you resize your canvas to the size of your paper being used then position the "small image" on the canvas where you would want it printed on the paper. If you export to PDF, you can use your PDF viewer to check what the printed version will look like, thus potentially saving on wasted paper and ink. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 It also depends on the OS related printer driver and what that offers, since some features are shared (reused) here. Here's how it looks for one Canon printer when selecting the layout settings of that one. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 5 minutes ago, Alfred said: If you export to PDF, you can use your PDF viewer to check what the printed version will look like, thus potentially saving on wasted paper and ink. The print preview (as basic as it is) shown on the File > Print screen should give a fair representation as to if you are printing in the right place on the paper, thus potentially saving on wasted disk space and time Alfred 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameslbirke Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 6 hours ago, carl123 said: Assuming you are using Affinity Photo, if you resize your canvas to the size of your paper being used then position the "small image" on the canvas where you would want it printed on the paper. Great idea. Thanks. Except, after I resized the canvas to 8.5 x 11, I couldn't get the image to move to the upper left-hand corner of the canvas using the move tool. In fact, I couldn't get the image to move at all. Can you help me with this? Jim Birke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 You could create a new document with the paper size used as the document size, and use File > Place to put your smaller image where you want it. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 4 hours ago, jameslbirke said: I couldn't get the image to move to the upper left-hand corner of the canvas using the move tool. In fact, I couldn't get the image to move at all. If you have opened the image with File > Open it may be locked in the Layers Panel Unlock it and it should move freely Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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