Bigger than life.

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Gary Hummell
Jul 9, 2003
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When you are viewing at 100%, that refers to being able to display actual pixels. This is the most accurate way to check an image but means most images for print don’t fit on the screen entirely. An image that is 2000 pixels wide is only going to display about half on a 1024×768 monitor display. When you save for web you most likely will want to reduce the size of the image to 500 or 600 pixels wide to fit on most monitors.

Does that help?

Gary
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Bill Lamp
Jul 9, 2003
Well, if your document is say 10 inches (for 8.5×11 inch paper) tall at 300 DPI (for most non-Epson ink jet printers), at 100% zoom it is 3000 screen pixels tall. That takes a rather large screen or VERY high screen resolution to see it all on the screen.

Try the help button (the index in the manual) and search for resize. Then do a search for resample. The whole topic is a bit too big for here.

You might want to look at www.scantips.com for a real good information section on resolution. DPI is not DPI is not DPI type of NEEDED information.

That should get you off and running.
Bill
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Bill Lamp
Jul 9, 2003
Sorry, the information IS correct, but avoids your real question.

At the bottom of the Navagator tab thing is a slider that controls the zoom. You will see a number say 12% at the top of your picture. You will find that same number in a box over there. move the slider, or type in different numbers until the picture matches up with the page your holding up to the screen. Write it down as you will probably need that again. That is the match for THAT job.

You still need to visit www.scantips.com

The resolution, pixel size determines the physical storage space/download time of the file.

Bill
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Flo Nelson
Jul 9, 2003
View –> print size.

Flo

"Kim Bellomy" wrote in message
This may be the most basic of stupid user questions.

Question: How do I view documents on my monitor at actual size? Or close
to it?
Description of the problem. When I "view" a document at 100% or actual
size on my monitor, it is HUGE…bigger than life. To actually see an image at close to the real size I have to set the image size at about 33%.
An associated problem is that when I save out a version of the document
for the web, it is also HUGE in physical size.
Yet when I print out the docs, they print to exactly the same size.
Any Suggestions?

Thanks
MM
Mac McDougald
Jul 10, 2003
At certain standard monitor resolutions on certain size monitors, if you use View/Print Size, it will show it pretty near right on print size.

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