DeWayne McCarty wrote: > I am starting a small book covering 10 years of weekly cartoons from a local > news paper. I have about 150 (JPG) cartoons scanned into my computer and > would like to create a book. > > The page lay out would place one cartoon on the upper half on the right > side of the page, The 2nd cartoon would be placed on the lower left half of > the page. There would be text on the upper left and lower left of each > cartoon. > > My problem is: I have got about 35 cartoons/comments in the document. It is > now very large > 172,021,KB, (I am only about 1/3 done???). > > The insertion of a cartoon, positioning, etc. takes a long time and seems > to have a mind of it's own. I have been setting picture size parameters as > (Keep ratio), Position (top/bottom, right/left), from page text area , > anchor (Page). > > > How can I reduce the size (Scale down cartoon size?) > > Stabilize position on page (moving one cartoon moves the 2nd or the > caption) > > Do I need to place cartoons and/or text in frames? > > Since these are copies of pencil drawings, should I be using the > picture options to make position/size adjustments? > > Any suggestions will be appreciated. > > Thank you > > > > DeWayne McCarty > Columbiana County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohcolumb/index.htm > The Historical Society of Columbiana & Fairfield Twp. > 10 E. Park Ave., Columbiana, OH 44408 > You need to reduce the size of the individual cartoons. You can use GIMP or some other graphic manipulation program to do the resizing. What size did you scan them at? They should not be scanned at high resolutions. Newspapers usually have a range of about 3-4 on the gray scale. Color comics are a different proposition only because the different colors give a semblance of a wider print scale. A low resolution will display okay in a book format. Also consider the color of the newspaper (background). I have found that scanning photos or cartoons will give an overall grey cast to the background which should be white. I have spent plenty of time altering the color of B/W cartoons to get them to show up half decent. Hope this helps!
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