On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 8:54 AM, "Mark Roberts" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The technical term for what you're doing - printing a single image > across two pages - is a "double truck". You can use that to impress > chicks at the pub ;-) I think my chick impressing days are long gone, even if they existed in the first place. > Anyway, what I do when I print an image double > truck is to make each page cover about 55% of the image. Thanks - that's pretty much what I've ended up doing. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > Brian Walters wrote: > > >G'day all > > > >I'm putting together a Blurb book of my recent travels in central > >Australia. > > > >I have one image, a panorama, that I'd like to use across two facing > >pages by splitting the image into two equal halves, but I'm a bit > >concerned about 'losing' part of the image in the middle due to the book > >binding. I estimate that the binding will hide almost a centimetre of > >the middle of the image. > > > >The question. > > > >Would it be practical to leave a gap between the two halves of the image > >so that the gap would fall in the binding area and minimise the amount > >of the panorama that would be 'lost' to the binding? > > > >Has anyone tried this? The only problem that I can see is working out > >how much of a gap to leave - I obviously don't want to make the gap too > >wide and end up with a blank strip down the middle of the image. I'm > >thinking of a conservative gap of about 3-4 mm on each half. > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
