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Picture Sizes, How they impact printing a thread |
ThinAir |
Sep 16 2003, 10:14 AM
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Best friends Group: Members Posts: 2,553 Joined: 4-February 03 From: Flagstaff, AZ Member No.: 231 Region Association: Southwest Region |
I don't know about the rest of you, but I often want to print a thread so that I can have it out by my car or just to file away. I find it very frustrating to pick something up from my printer only to find that the right side has been cut off and I can't make sense of it.
This morning I figured out that this is not just the laser printers work, but that the size of pictures in a thread is probably the primary cause for this problem. It turns out that although browsers can wrap the text when printing to compensate for the size of the paper, they don't seem to be able to resize the pictures to fit. I know that some printers have a "reduce to paper size" option, but my printer doesn't. An example of this is this thread: http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act...t=ST&f=2&t=4940 where the pictures at the beginning are 825 pixels wide. When I printed it, the first line ends with "soldering is rat" because the text wraps at the width of the pictures. My solution for this one was to save the thread as an html page, then I used my web page editor to resize the display of the first picture to 700 pixels wide. When I printed this time the pictures were narrow enough that they did not go past the right side of my page. The text wrapped at the same point where the right side of the picture is and I'm a happy camper. I don't know that 700 pixels is some sort of magic width. I had also reduced my margins from .75" to .5" and that has an impact as well. What I'm sure of is that slightly smaller images in the threads would probably help for this problem as well as reducing bandwidth requirements. |
Brad Roberts |
Sep 16 2003, 11:49 AM
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914 Freak! Group: Members Posts: 19,148 Joined: 23-December 02 Member No.: 8 Region Association: None |
Ahhh.. I see said the blind man.
We searched and searched for a web based auto image resize software before going live with this BBS. We knew people would have a hard time with the images...so we offer free image manipulation software like "Irfanview". Actually.. you tell your scanner what size you want. Preview the pic on your scanner and see what size it is. Then tell it to scan the pic using some variation of 640x480... your pics would have been 480x640. You just have to play with the sizes until you get a pic that fits into our locked down format. Once you get the size down... doing it to all your pics will become very easy and fast for you. I know all the key stroke commands for Pain Shop Pro.. I can resize a image for this site in about 2 minutes... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) B |
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