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- Using the Steven Hornback (Softscene) Clipart
- From WPSG Forum on Compuserve
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- 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."