Re: [Gimp-user] Print Quality Poorer than Word?

2009-07-25 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 09:59:10 pm bumpkin wrote: > The graphics guy sent me our logo as a .jpg so I created a new > file with the appropriate dimensions in the lasest GIMP for > windows. I imported and scaled down the logo to the appropriate > size and placed it at the top, finished adding the te

[Gimp-user] Print Quality Poorer than Word?

2009-06-10 Thread bumpkin
>On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:31:38 +0200 (CEST), bumpkin wrote: > >>>Thanks for the reply. First I created a document to be the size of the >> entire quarter page ad, 3.75" by 4.75". > >What DPI did you set? 3,75in at 72 DPI will look fine on screen, but >terrible printed, while at 300 DPI it'll look so

Re: [Gimp-user] Print Quality Poorer than Word?

2009-06-10 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:31:38 +0200 (CEST), bumpkin wrote: >>Thanks for the reply. First I created a document to be the size of the > entire quarter page ad, 3.75" by 4.75". What DPI did you set? 3,75in at 72 DPI will look fine on screen, but terrible printed, while at 300 DPI it'll look somewhat

Re: [Gimp-user] Print Quality Poorer than Word?

2009-06-10 Thread David Gowers
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:01 PM, bumpkin wrote: >>bumpkin wrote: >> >>> The graphics guy sent me our logo as a .jpg so I created a new file with > the >>> appropriate dimensions in the lasest GIMP for windows. I imported and > scaled >>> down the logo to the appropriate size and placed it at the t

[Gimp-user] Print Quality Poorer than Word?

2009-06-10 Thread bumpkin
>bumpkin wrote: > >> The graphics guy sent me our logo as a .jpg so I created a new file with the >> appropriate dimensions in the lasest GIMP for windows. I imported and scaled >> down the logo to the appropriate size and placed it at the top, finished >> adding the text, combined the layers and

Re: [Gimp-user] Print Quality Poorer than Word?

2009-06-09 Thread Olivier Lecarme
bumpkin wrote: > The graphics guy sent me our logo as a .jpg so I created a new file with the > appropriate dimensions in the lasest GIMP for windows. I imported and scaled > down the logo to the appropriate size and placed it at the top, finished > adding the text, combined the layers and export

[Gimp-user] Print Quality Poorer than Word?

2009-06-09 Thread bumpkin
The graphics guy sent me our logo as a .jpg so I created a new file with the appropriate dimensions in the lasest GIMP for windows. I imported and scaled down the logo to the appropriate size and placed it at the top, finished adding the text, combined the layers and exported as a .tiff for the pri