Hey David!

The "actual size" refers to making the image as close to the intended result as 
possible. This can be done by sizing the document or doing a "selection" that 
is near the final size;-)

Also, I forgot to mention that WORD treats PS objects as TEXT. Thus center, 
left or right justification from the text control can be used.

Henry Howey
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From: David W. Fenton [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:50 PM
To: finale
Subject: Re: [Finale] Dissertation work

On 30 Mar 2010 at 23:08, Howey, Henry wrote:

> Use the postscript for insertion into WORD documents. They're big but
> dpi is a function of the printer, not the object,

Well, PostScript (EPS or PS) works fine if you have a PostScript
printer for output, but most Windows users do not, so it's not
helpful to recommend that.

You *are* correct, though, that EPS/PS graphics make dpi irrelevant,
as they scale to whatever output dpi you choose, depending on the
output device.

But for non-scalable graphics, dpi *does* matter. 150dpi is fine for
onscreen display, but is terrible for printing. 300dpi is the lowest
satisfactory dpi for graphics, I'd say, but for things like music, I
don't think it's high enough (you'll get jaggies on beams, for
instance, and if you resize in your target program, you may lose
staff lines; that's dependent on the resizing algorithm used by the
program you've inserted the graphic into, though; MS Word is actually
extremely good with that).

> Try to size close to actual size. Also, breal multi-line images into
> smaller pieces for good pageflow.

"Actual size?" What does that mean on a computer screen?

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