A different kind of problem. Can you help?

You’d be better off using a Vector graphic program. Text letters can be converted to vector graphics and scaled up or down to virtually any size you could possibly want without losing quality or getting ‘jaggy’. You can also choose to just print a thin outline of the letter and save a cartload of ink, as opposed to printing ‘filled’ black letters. (I’ve made letters up to A3 this way for carnival floats.)

Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand… progs of that type. —

Ron.

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Help!

I would like to print HUGE letters, so I can make a BIG sign.
I would like to take a letter, e.g. ‘G’, and print it onto 4 sheets of 8"x11" paper so that the ‘G’ is 16" x 22" in size. I can then trace this onto the sign material, thus making my sign using the letters that I require.

Any suggestions as to how to do this? Will Photoshop do it?
Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you.

Well, if photoshop is the only tool you have to hand, the only real workaround is to create your letter on a text layer as big, and as wide as the image (16×22) – it’s quicker to use Free Transform for this.

Then resize the canvas to 25% of the original size and keep it to the top-left. This should be 1 of 4 pages. Then use Filter > Other > Offset to move the text around by exactly the width of the graphic, saving or printing out as you go.

Shouldn’t take too long.

David
digital-conceptions.com

wrote in message

Help!

I would like to print HUGE letters, so I can make a BIG sign.
I would like to take a letter, e.g. ‘G’, and print it onto 4 sheets of 8"x11" paper so that the ‘G’ is 16" x 22" in size. I can then trace this onto the sign material, thus making my sign using the letters that I require.

Any suggestions as to how to do this? Will Photoshop do it?
Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you.

Thank you for your response, Ron.

This sounds like exactly what I want to do. I hope you don’t mind my asking a couple of questions!

What Vector graphic program are you using? I looked on the internet and it is confusing.

What font are you using to get just a thin outline of the letter? It makes sense to me to save a LOT of ink by printing an outline. Thanks for the tip.

Are you willing to help me with this? I’m somewhat of a newbie when it comes to this kind of thing, and I’m a senior.

I’d like to be able to print large letters on my little printer by printing part of letters then scotch taping them together to form one large letter.

Please e-mail me at if you are willing to help.

Thanks again for taking the time to respond. VERY much appreciated.

Jim 8*)

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:57:20 +0100, "RTM"
wrote:

You’d be better off using a Vector graphic program. Text letters can be converted to vector graphics and scaled up or down to virtually any size you could possibly want without losing quality or getting ‘jaggy’. You can also choose to just print a thin outline of the letter and save a cartload of ink, as opposed to printing ‘filled’ black letters. (I’ve made letters up to A3 this way for carnival floats.)

Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand… progs of that type.

I thought that the slice tool is what you use for creating designs over several pieces of paper?
"David" wrote in message

Well, if photoshop is the only tool you have to hand, the only real workaround is to create your letter on a text layer as big, and as wide as the image (16×22) – it’s quicker to use Free Transform for this.
Then resize the canvas to 25% of the original size and keep it to the top-left. This should be 1 of 4 pages. Then use Filter > Other > Offset to move the text around by exactly the width of the graphic, saving or

printing

out as you go.

Shouldn’t take too long.

David
digital-conceptions.com

wrote in message

Help!

I would like to print HUGE letters, so I can make a BIG sign.
I would like to take a letter, e.g. ‘G’, and print it onto 4 sheets of 8"x11" paper so that the ‘G’ is 16" x 22" in size. I can then trace this onto the sign material, thus making my sign using the letters that I require.

Any suggestions as to how to do this? Will Photoshop do it?
Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you.

I suppose it could be used like that, though it’s really more designed for web work

There’s an issue with making the graphic as large as the entire sheet, though,
in that inkjet printers have unprintable margins (varies by printer) so you’ll lose
some of your graphic. leave yourself a 1/2" border, since you’re going to tape them together anyhow.

"ben-dover" <http://www.gilligan@theisle> wrote in message

I thought that the slice tool is what you use for creating designs over several pieces of paper?
"David" wrote in message

Well, if photoshop is the only tool you have to hand, the only real workaround is to create your letter on a text layer as big, and as wide

as

the image (16×22) – it’s quicker to use Free Transform for this.
Then resize the canvas to 25% of the original size and keep it to the top-left. This should be 1 of 4 pages. Then use Filter > Other > Offset

to

move the text around by exactly the width of the graphic, saving or

printing

out as you go.

Shouldn’t take too long.

David
digital-conceptions.com

wrote in message

Help!

I would like to print HUGE letters, so I can make a BIG sign.
I would like to take a letter, e.g. ‘G’, and print it onto 4 sheets of 8"x11" paper so that the ‘G’ is 16" x 22" in size. I can then trace this onto the sign material, thus making my sign using the letters that I require.

Any suggestions as to how to do this? Will Photoshop do it?
Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you.

On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 03:30:50 GMT, "ben-dover"
<http://www.gilligan@theisle> wrote:

I thought that the slice tool is what you use for creating designs over several pieces of paper?

Silly, no it’s for sharing out the apple pie evenly …

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