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#1086 From: cherryfinals <cherryfinals@...>
Date: Sat Nov 21, 2009 9:02 am
Subject: Re: [The Gimp] (unknown) 		cherryfinals
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Try importing your document into Open Office and use that to place and size your hires image. Once you get it set there, Open Office will allow you to resize the document and export as a PDF.

May I ask why you are specifying 6"x9"? That is a non-standard format and will not fit well on store shelves or among other books in a bookcase. Here are the standard formats:

"A Format" paperbacks are 110 mm x 178mm (4.33" x 7.01")in size
"B Format" paperbacks are 130 mm x 198mm (5.12" x 7.8"), while
"C Format" (trade paperbacks) are 135 mm x 216mm (5.32" x 8.51")

Stan

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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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--- On Fri, 11/20/09, Owen Nelson <owen.nelson13@...> wrote:

From: Owen Nelson <owen.nelson13@...>
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Date: Friday, November 20, 2009, 6:19 PM

 

Help please! doing a self published photo book, 6" x 9", did my GIMP images at that size, commercial printer needs 8.5" x 11" due to bleeds of some images.  Cannot get the images to print at right size, they come out at about 4+" x 6+". I did some tests by creating a new image at 8.5 x 11, then pasted in an image that was 6x9, same scaled down size! have tried different combos of parameters, incl. set image, layer, print size, page size at 8.5 x 11.  My offsite printer needs images in pdf so am using a converter, it has you open your GIMP image then "print" it (thru GIMP) to the converter, it is creating the pdf with images scaled down, so dont think its my printer, maybe something in the GIMP print function?  thanks, Owen



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#1085 From: Owen Nelson <owen.nelson13@...>
Date: Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:19 pm
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Help please! doing a self published photo book, 6" x 9", did my GIMP images at that size, commercial printer needs 8.5" x 11" due to bleeds of some images.  Cannot get the images to print at right size, they come out at about 4+" x 6+". I did some tests by creating a new image at 8.5 x 11, then pasted in an image that was 6x9, same scaled down size! have tried different combos of parameters, incl. set image, layer, print size, page size at 8.5 x 11.  My offsite printer needs images in pdf so am using a converter, it has you open your GIMP image then "print" it (thru GIMP) to the converter, it is creating the pdf with images scaled down, so dont think its my printer, maybe something in the GIMP print function?  thanks, Owen


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#1084 From: Portman <mrport@...>
Date: Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:20 am
Subject: Re: [The Gimp] Re: resizing image issues with ppi 		porty1971
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Hi Shannon,

I'm not sure if this helps, but check if your images are RGB (as opposed to indexed or grayscale). That often helps. Have you tried setting your default resolution to 300 dpi and then restarting GIMP and creating the size you want?

HTH,
Riva

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I just want to clarify - the problem is that if you have two images the same dimensions, with one at 72ppi and one at 300ppi, the text is pixelated the same (badly) in both images. Is there anyway to get small, crisp text in Gimp?

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> I'm making small images for a website, and they are pretty small in terms of dimensions (text buttons). The automatic ppi in gimp is 72, which makes the text very badly pixelated that small.
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> If I create a new image, with the size of .5 inches by .3 inches, with a ppi of 300, the quality of the image is great, but the image is actually bigger than it should be, when viewed at 100%, and when uploaded to the site.
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> If I create a new image, with a size of .5 in by .3 inches, with a 72 ppi, it is smaller in dimension when viewed at 100% and uploaded, but he text is pixelated, fuzzy.
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> I've tried creating big images and shrinking them, but the results are never right.
>
> If pixels are defined by the resolution, and don't have definite size, why are my images changin dimension when I want to have more pixels within the same areea.
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> So needing help, please!
>


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