On 11/26/2010 07:10 AM, Angela Vincent (Vanilla) wrote: > Hi all > > > > This is my first post. > > > > I have got a bit bolder with Scribus and made an A2 calendar with an image > that is 390mm x 290mm, so almost half the page. The trouble is, I seem to > be a bit out of my depth at this larger size in understanding the use of > images and how they blow up, and also if there is something I should or > should not be doing in Scribus itself to improve this. > > > > I have changed the preview settings to full resolution which helped and I > purchased the stock images from www.fotolia.com at 300 dpi. The printer > says my images are 110 dpi on all pages. The rough image size I purchased > for each page was 1700 x 1117 (1.9mp) 5.7" x 3.7" but they vary a bit from > image to image. I could buy the next size up but I am not sure if this will > work. > > > > It all looks great on the page!
Hi Angela, If you look at Properties > Image you can check the image DPI for whatever size you have made your image frame. You would likely be disappointed in 110 dpi in your final product. 150 - 300 dpi is more likely to be satisfactory. There are some instances where > 300 might be desirable, but not for most purposes. This may be of some help: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Image_DPI_and_Scaling,_and_Resultant_File_Sizes Keep in mind that the screen shots are of highly magnified PDFs. Greg
