Marilynx Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 When printing a picture, the default is to automatically "Fit Picture to Frame," ie, enlarge it to whatever size of paper it's being printed on. I do a LOT of printing to PDFs, and have to turn this off on every layer, 5-6 times per file. Is there a way to set the default on this to "Do NOT Fit Picture to Frame?" It would save me, on average, 6 clicks per project, roughly 40 projects per weekend. And that many clicks DOES make a difference for my poor fingers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Rick Brewster Posted February 12, 2023 Solution Share Posted February 12, 2023 Unfortunately this isn't possible, as the printing UI is a Windows component. There's no way for me to make any changes to its UI -- I'd have to write a brand new printing UI and printing system from scratch. Someday... Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilynx Posted February 13, 2023 Author Share Posted February 13, 2023 2 hours ago, Rick Brewster said: Unfortunately this isn't possible, as the printing UI is a Windows component. There's no way for me to make any changes to its UI -- I'd have to write a brand new printing UI and printing system from scratch. Someday... Oh, well. Somebody send me some magnesium oil to dull the pain.... as you say, SOMEDAY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryP Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 Hi. you can solve this if your keyboard or PC allows you to record keystrokes to a single key combo. eg you could program Fn+F1 to do Ctrl-P , Alt-F , Enter or Cntrl-P , Alt-F , Alt-P. It is the Alt-F that toggles the "Fit picture" . this works for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactilis Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 On 2/13/2023 at 2:33 AM, Marilynx said: Oh, well. Somebody send me some magnesium oil to dull the pain.... as you say, SOMEDAY. Sorry that SOMEDAY has taken a while to arrive, but here's some AutoHotkey for you, which is better that magnesium oil because it removes the pain completely. Press Ctrl+P to print and the unwanted 'Fit picture to frame' will be unchecked for you. Spoiler ; AutoHotKey script: 'AHK hotkeys.ahk' ; ; Create a shortcut to this .ahk script file in the Windows Startup folder, which can be ; found by entering shell:startup in Windows Explorer's address bar. ; The usual location is: ; C:\Users\<users_folder>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup ; ; Require the use of AHK v2.0 or later #Requires AutoHotkey v2 ; Allow only one instance of the script to be active. ; If the script is re-run (e.g. after editing the .ahk), the currently running ; instance will be replaced with the new version #SingleInstance Force ; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Hotkey: Ctrl+P while Paint.NET is the active window ; ; Does File | Print and, when the Print Pictures window is displayed, unchecks ; the 'Fit picture to frame' option which is checked by default. ; ; Side effects: None ; #HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe paintdotnet.exe") ^p:: { ; Use Alt+FP to do File | Print Send "!fp" ; Wait until the Print Pictures dialog is active WinWaitActive("Print Pictures") ; Use Alt+F to uncheck 'Fit picture to frame' Send "!f" } 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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