Essentially the printer driver max's out around 300 dpi. When you send a 500 dpi file, the driver kicks out the excess resolution, usually with destructive results. It would be easy to accomplish this project in Elements. It's easy to get something looking right on screen, not necessarily so in print...jf
On Jan 5, 2006, at 10:42 PM, LuAnn Johnson wrote: > What I thought would be a simple project has turned into a bit of a > monster. Thanks Jonathan, Russ, Ray, Jerry, and anyone else who > contributed to the solution. > > The problem appears to be the resolution. I am now exporting the > photos from iPhoto to Appleworks Drawing. I am using Appleworks > because that is the only program I can work in which I can vary the > sizes of several pictures on one page. I have Elements, but > learning it for that purpose hasn't happened yet. > > I had to start over. I exported and printed one page at 500 and > another at 300. They were all cropped before exporting, and then I > had to make them smaller in order to get all eight on one page. > Some photos looked better at 500, and some looked better at 300. > Thank you for all the help. I had no idea that what one sees on > the monitor may not be what comes out of the printer. This is one > case where WYSInotWYG! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2102 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060105/15f93714/attachment.bin
