Setting a size within an image.. to scale

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Supchaka
Apr 8, 2004
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I was wanting to use for sign work, say a picture of a window of which I have measurements, then in the photo mark the right and left side, top and bottom, enter the "actual" dimensions of the window, and then have text I place on the screen be easily scalable, but show me the "actual" size of that font in inches just as what I am looking at the screen?

I know its not very difficult to say ok, I have a 30 inch tall window, and that text on screen is about 1/3 of the height, so I need to make a 10 inch letter. But you can see the ease of saving some time here! I’d imagine theres sign software for this, but Ive never looked into one.
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Eric Gill
Apr 8, 2004
"Supchaka" wrote in
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I was wanting to use for sign work, say a picture of a window of which I have measurements, then in the photo mark the right and left side, top and bottom, enter the "actual" dimensions of the window, and then have text I place on the screen be easily scalable, but show me the "actual" size of that font in inches just as what I am looking at the screen?

You realize that picas and points convert directly to inches, right?

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Apr 9, 2004
bottom, enter the "actual" dimensions of the window, and then have text I place on the screen be easily scalable, but show me the "actual" size of that font in inches just as what I am looking at the screen?


Are you talking about the letters on your screen being the same size as they will be when printed? If so set up your printer settings then click on the hand tool. On the task bar are three buttons, click on Print Size. ~Doc
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Supchaka
Apr 9, 2004
I take a picture of a window for a sign, the window is 21 inches tall. In CS I lay out the window the way I like with various fonts and sizes so everything is proportioned to the glass. In this example my rulers showed a total of 9.25 inches, granted I could increase the image size until the rulers matched that 21 inch window square which isnt very good especially when doing larger sizes.

In this example the way I have been doing it, I take the true 21 and divide it by the adobe 9.25 and so I know that each 1 inch guide I have set is equal to 2.27 inches in real life. Then if I can tell how tall a letter needs to be printed to match exactly what is seen on the screen.

What I would LOVE to be able to do is along the lines of setting a point A and a point B, call it 21 inches and the program grids it our for me! 🙂 I’m just looking for any way to make things easier.

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bottom, enter the "actual" dimensions of the window, and then have text
I
place on the screen be easily scalable, but show me the "actual" size of that font in inches just as what I am looking at the screen?


Are you talking about the letters on your screen being the same size as
they
will be when printed? If so set up your printer settings then click on the hand tool. On the task bar are three buttons, click on Print Size. ~Doc
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Apr 9, 2004
granted I could increase the image size until the
rulers matched that 21 inch window square which isnt very good especially when doing larger sizes.

Sup?
I think it should work good for you. After all it’s just numbers for the image size and vectors for the text. Try this. Create a new image the size of your window with a low resolution, say 50. Go to preferences and set up your grid the way you want it, say every inch with 4 subdivisions for 1/4 inch accuracy. Type in some lettering. Go to Edit / Transform / Scale and set your size. When you’re done and things look all peachy keen save it (no point in wasting disk space). When you’re ready to print go to Image / Image size and resample to your desired resolution. The vector text makes the tansition flawlessly.
~Doc

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