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NaitLee / Cat-Printer

Application supporting Bluetooth thermal “Cat Printers”, for everyone!
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Image rotation and crop #34

Open izumitelj opened 2 years ago

izumitelj commented 2 years ago

Hello! Thanks for this great and simple alternative :). I've noticed one issue while inserting images – source photo orientation is not respected and images in portrait orientation end up rotated -90° (to landscape, thus very small in print).

It would be great if the app could have basic editing feature like +90° rotation and crop. With those tools we could skip the need for separate image editing apps altogether.

NaitLee commented 2 years ago

I will consider. I'd spend a few days to review what I had left here, and what's next.

I think it's best to also complete #31.

Thanks!

sync1211 commented 2 years ago

I feel like, if we're adding an image editor we should use that instead of the current import system. As this editor would need a lot of functionality, we could use an open-source image editor (like miniPaint).

izumitelj commented 2 years ago

@sync1211 the miniPaint looks really nice.

I didn't have that in my mind particularly. I see this project as minimalist straight-forward replacement for the cluttered official app. I only suggested these essential features because I would make possible to reasonably control downloaded and original images/photos – which I believe is how most users use this app and printer. I see it more as extension of printer settings (portrait/landscape), with no need to ever save the image file back.

NaitLee commented 2 years ago

That's right, I prefer keeping it minimal, and our work is just to: interact with our lovely printer, neatly.

miniPaint is clean! And the best is to just use it via its GitHub Pages instance. In the mean while I found Pocket Paint, an Android app. It's also minimal. For Desktop, stuffs like GIMP and Krita are there. Similarly, in CLI, the project makes use of ImageMagick and Ghostscript, rather than including Pillow/NumPy/...

In contrast, think about why those cluttered apps don't satisfy people. They are simply including & doing too much. There are good apps around, focusing their supposed job. Instead of "libraries", just put apps alongside and enjoy, simple like that! 😉

We should do one thing and do it well. And may check contributing guideline. I think I should state these briefly in docs, too.

Despite saying, text on canvas or rotating/cropping image are probably essential basics. Let's just do it 👌

ps. I want to try if I can do these without scrambling the UI too much, that means to cost time for investigation.

NaitLee commented 2 years ago

The newest 0.6 release contains Image Rotation.

I want to make that canvas can control more. This may make Text Inputting better, and Cropping may come next with it.

Hmm, and a story