Image to A4 Page?

[Golan2072]

What are the correct proportions of an image's height and width to fit neatly into an A4 printing page? What should be the size of the image to avoid resizing on printing to an A4 page?

 

[Pickles]

Depends on your printer and your printer settings. What graphics software are you using? Most will have a view option something like 'show printer margins'. That usually shows your page on screen, with a dotted line indicating the actual printer borders. As long as your image fits inside this dotted line, it should print fine. Make sure you uncheck any boxes in your printer dialogue which say "scale to fit page".

If you let me know what programme you're using I might be able to give you more detailed info.

 

[Golan2072]

I typically create stuff in Paint Shop Pro 7; however, I print at my collge, using the WinXP Microsoft Photo Editor for printing.

 

[Pickles]

Hmm, I'm not familiar with the MS Photo Editor ... I tend to save files as *.jpeg and print from Adobe Photoshop (but that's because the AutoCAD/CorelDraw/Illustrator files I create are otherwise so big the university plotters take hours to process them).

Do your college printers not run PaintShop? If they do, I would print from that. Failing that, follow my advice in the first post and try to find the view option that toggles the printer margin display. Most Microsoft utilities should have it somewhere in the 'View' drop-down menu.

Standard A4 size is 210mm X 297mm. If your image is less than 195mm x 280, it should fit on any printer. However, you still have to toggle off 'scale to fit', or it might stretch the image.

Hope this helps. Your best bet might be to ask your friendly neighbourhood college IT boys, though - I've always found them very useful (although I wouldn't want to meet one in a dark alley).

Out of interest, why are you concerned with re-scaling when you print? Table-top floorplans?

 

[Golan2072]

Re-scaling is mostly an issue with deckplans; in other printings it isn't an issue in most cases.

 

[Pickles]

As long as you include a scale bar on the deckplan image (or reference the grid size, e.g. 1 square = 1.5 metres), re-scaling doesn't matter. IIRC, your deckplans usually have this already, so you're covered.