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Using the Steven Hornback (Softscene) Clipart
From WPSG Forum on Compuserve
by John McAdams
If you use simple line art in WordPerfect, you're used to
being able to size it any way you want. Sure, if you blow
bitmapped images up too much they begin to look coarse. But
within a very broad range, you can use a pic any size you want.
This is NOT the case with Steven Hornback's elegant,
attractive landscape images. At most sizes, the screens in the
images create a very unattractive "moire" effect.
What can you do? See that the images are used "natural
size." That is, import the images at a size such that each pixel
in the image is mapped to a single pixel in your printer's
raster.
I have modified the headers of all the images so that
WordPerfect will read the resolution as 300 X 300 pixels per
inch. Thus if you import the images with "Size" equal to "Auto
Both" and print at "High" resolution on a Laserjet (or other 300
dpi device) the images will print beautifully.
Suppose you want them larger? If you set the print
resolution within WordPerfect to "Medium" (use Shift/F7 to do
this) the resolution will be 150 dots per inch. If you exactly
double both the height and width that WordPerfect gives you with
"Auto Both" you will still have a "natural size" import.
Since most of the pics are 640 X 480 pixels in size, "Auto
Both" sizes the image to 2.133 by 1.6 inches. You can then set
"Size" using "Height/Auto Width" and set the height to 3.2
inches. The resulting graphic will print beautifully at 150 dpi.
It will also print pretty well at 300 dpi. You might want to
print it at 300 dpi if (for example) you have another image on
the page (perhaps a vector graphic) that you want to print at
maximum quality.
SOME of these pics (CAPITOL, for example) can pretty much be
sized freely. Most, however, must be used at a width of 2.133
inches (at 300 dpi) or 4.266 inches (at 150 dpi) but not any
intermediate size.
I hope you enjoy these images. I paricularly hope you'll
see fit to register them (see REGFORM.DOC) and to send a note of
encouragement to the artist who drew them.
I can be reached on the WPSG forum of Compuserve: my number
is [72331,2346]. I can also be reached on EXEC-PC as "John
McAdams of Shorewood, WI."