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[Dougyfish]

I have a Quark 4.1 document that is 24"x48". I've got a picture box the size of the documentthat I'm importing a Photoshop generated .tif file. The .tif file is 300dpi at 7500 pixels wide by 15000 pixels high. The photoshop document size settings are 25"x50". It's saved as a .tif with lzw compression.

When I import this file into the picture box it shows up as if it were only a couple inces tall and wide.

Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Doug

 

[duncdude]

are you sure its not at 3000 dpi? if it is that would explain it being 2.5 inches wide.

Duncan

 

[Dougyfish]

Good thought. Just checked it and it is in fact 300dpi. And that file is over 300Mb large. At 3000dpi I probably couldn't fit it on my hard drive

Any other thoughts on things to check?

Thanks,
Doug

 

[duncdude]

The resolution makes no difference. The file size would still be the same. If it was at 3000 dpi it would just be 2.5 inches wide. 3000 x 2.5 = 7500 pixels. The only reason the resolution exists is to be instructive as to the size you 'intend' to use it. Then when using Quark for example, when the picture is imported it is immediately obvious the size it is designed to be used at. This removes the ambigouity and removes the likelihood of printing a 72 dpi image. For example, the dpi of an image is irrelevant on the web. Only the number of pixels matter.

Maybe Quark doesn't entirely understand the TiF version. What version of Photoshop. Try back-saving the version of the file and re-importing.

Duncan

 

[Dougyfish]

It was saved with PS v6.0 on a PC (W2K). I resaved from the original and without lzw compression and it imported fine.

Thanks,
Doug

 

[duncdude]

Cool! Glad to hear it. Where's my star???

Cheers
Duncan