PDF, Image resizing question

Rozmataz

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I am working on a large project for one of my commercial customers.

I have to have her reduce the output of an image file (this one is a pdf, there are also photos). She sent me a pdf and I was able to get it to print out the size I need by importing it into a Word Doc. She will be doing the output printing. This looks a bit striated (ziggy zaggy) reduced... and I am hoping someone can advise how to do this.

I tried to open one of the photo files and it must be 16 x20 original size (or so it seems) - since all I saw on my screen was a small portion of the hard copy she sent...


Thanks,

Roz
 
WADR, I think you're going about this the wrong way. Adobe Acrobat has the ability to do the print scaling for you, so there's no reason (or utility) to importing the document into Word. This should help with the jaggies.

When you open the document with Acrobat (or Acrobat reader), and go to print, you can set up for the output size that you have and under page scaling select "fit to paper".

What are you trying to do with the photos? Printing photos is a nontrivial exercise if you are really looking for professional output. Of course, it depends what you're printing them for, what the budget is, etc. The size that the photo appears on screen has little to do with the size it will print to. So even though a photo may look massive on screen, it will print to a significantly smaller size on paper. What it comes down to is the number of pixels you have. Give us some more information about what you have and what you're trying to do and we'll see if we can help.
 
Originally posted by Roz:
importing it into a Word Doc.
"Word" is not really a graphics application. Images are best dealt with in a specific "graphics" application. There are dozens available including one built into most versions of Windows.
 
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