Hi thank you so much for helping! I plan to export as PDFs and upload them to an online printing company to print on paper. I think the size problem I had was actually just my inexperience and confusion about how these things work and it is actually fine. Really appreciate your advice!
>The question I have is how do you intend to output your final recipe >"book"? >Will it be printed on paper by a printer, on a copy machine or on the >web? > >I set up a page in GIMP the same size as yours—880mm x 1248 mm at 106 >pixels >per inch (ppi)—put some 12 pt and 15 pt type on it, exported it as a >jpg and >inserted it on an A4 size page in WORD. It fit perfectly on A4. It >could >even be reduced a bit to allow for a binding margin on the spine. >What's >the problem? > >Rick S. > >BTW, GIMP is not the best program for laying out text-heavy books, but >you >use what you've got I guess. > >-----Original Message----- >From: PMan22 >Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 12:17 PM >To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org >Subject: [Gimp-user] Document actual size is huge and not A4 crisis >please >help! > >Hi everyone, > >I'm currently making a recipe book for charity in GIMP 2.10. I've made >all >of >the pages on A4 templates. However, when measuring something today I >noticed >the >results in mm were huge! This led me to realise that my documents are >ginormous! >880mm x 1240mm approx. I normally have it set to pixels which don't >mean a >lot >to me (I've not had any formal training in graphic design or the >software) >so I >guess I didn't notice. I've already spent months on this project and >the >prospect of remaking all of the pages is daunting as I have my actual >work >to do >as well. The weird thing is when I copy and paste items from a page >into an >actual A4 template the scale is the same. I've definitely always >selected A4 >template. Has anyone ever had this problem or know how to fix it? Is >it just >a >glitch? The pages as exported JPEGS in actual size are also huge, but >again >I >never noticed as they were always scaled fit to page before. Please >help!! >Thanks so much in advance! -- PMan22 (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
