Help With Paint Shop Pro Page Making

[trishalyn78]

I'm having trouble with page sizes. I'm creating my own pages with Paint Shop Pro. I used the dimensions from another topic on here, but I'm still having trouble.




What the page is supposed to look like.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/trishalyn78/02-1.jpg






What MP shows the page is going to look like in print (its cutting off all four edges).
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/trishalyn78/Image7-2.jpg





<font size=5>Any help would be appreciated! Thank you in advance!
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[trishalyn78]

P.S. Sorry for posting in the wrong place. I don't know how that happened!

[irusan]

The image is rather large - there is a 'zoom out' button that will resize the image. Keep pressing it until the image fits.

[asmit4]

Your margins aren't large enough. you have to create the margins on paintpro to allow for about an 1.5 inches to be cut off on all sides to be sure. I did mine on powerpoint and I made sure to not put anything for an inch around. that way when it was put in MP it showed how you wanted it.

[irusan]

Actually, I would very strongly suggest not adding extra canvas space using PowerPoint. As mentioned in another post, PowerPoint was designed by Microsoft specifically for display and not print.

While a JPG can be created from PowerPoint, there are a lot of factors controlling the quality of a JPG image; none of which are accessible from PowerPoint. These include compression rates, resolution, color model, and more. Additionally, Microsoft has developed their own algorithms for resizing and displaying images. That's fine for Microsoft designed graphic formats such as BMP, but the RIP used by the MyPublisher press won't handle the Microsoft algorithms.

That's why you'll find all the messages about using Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Corel Photo, and more. These are true graphic editing applications that allow you to properly edit and manipulate images. Getting a quality JPG out of PowerPoint is 51% having a quality image to begin with and 49% luck.

Don't get me wrong, if you are happy with the results, that's what matters. While it's easy to talk about pixels and resolutions, and yadda yadda yadda, these are really visual reminders and memories of special times in our lives and that is what is most important.

It's that importance, though, that made me want to write and caution people against using non-graphic applications to prep their images.BTW, this goes for other applications like Word, Excel, AMIPro, etc.

So, to get back to the original question, the easiest thing to do is to re-size the image inside of BookMaker. You will see two zoom buttons; one for zooming in and the other for zooming out. Zoom out until the entirety of the image is visible in the frame and you should be quite happy with the results.

HTH,

Rob

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Message was edited by irusan because my math skills were lacking on the original post!