victorbrodt

You know I looked and searched for a tutorial with this kind of description and I cannot find it. You would think that somehow there would be a link, but I have no idea if it's outlawed to do such a thing or what; for me it's made paint .net less and less interesting. I really don't have the time to spend days figuring things out that may or may not work. Well I'm just putting this down in case this can help add value. All the best, Victor

This is somewhat silly in that there's a simple solution. Very easy. Put your item on an 8 1/2 by 11 background (or the same size paper that you are set up with). When you have the item printed out that way, the printers software fills the whole screen in the manner that you've made the entire image, even with white. It does not really matter if it's 600 dpi or 96. If you fit the item to the page of your background to the page you print out it will work. Many Printer softwares have a little box to check which is "fit to page" uncheck that "fit to page" and it will stay the size that you want. (In my experience and you set it up right- if you check or uncheck it it stays the same size but I seem to remember one case where it is slightly less, so it could put a border of white around the page so as to look like a typical photograph.) To explain a little more-use a simple example of a one inch artwork item output of 100 dpi, put it on the full sized background just as you want for the paper size. You can use the software ruler to measure the size and it comes in handy and exact. But if you print the item with no background, then the item will expand to fill the area with a 100 x100 dots and you will use a 100 x 100 dots= 10,000 that will fill your entire page. That number of dots will look grainy and waste a lot of ink. When you go to print it, the pre print visual will look as if it fills the entire page (or almost an entire page with a dog gone boarder around it to make it look like a giant photograph.) The output will look terrible too because it is too few dots to make an entire page look acceptable. Then the final print will be useless on top of it. So whatever the story, set up your entire digital page to be the same as your paper when you start your artwork. If you want to just use the artwork for websites, 96 dpi works well, if for print 320 would probably be acceptable. And if you want to use artwork for a book print and website, start w the large and then size down when needed. **If this helps please upvote so that people don't need to go through everything to get a practical answer.

Much thanks to Mr BoltBait stuff maker- It worked fast and did a great job and a ton of resize and into .jpeg One more happy customer. Your plugins are great too. Victor

Thank you for your plug-ins, they look like they will be of a lot of help. Fiances are extremely thin, as I have spent a year just writing a book. So I would hope to donate something once I get back to normal next year -If you read books, I a will send an e-copy as a thank you, if you like. You can take a look at JacktheDog.us to see if it would be your type of thing. (I did a lot on paintNet fyi JacktheDog'at sign'JacktheDog.us is the email) Thanks again! Victor