"RSD99" …
Oh … FWIW: if your intended destination is actually a printing press … you might find that the text will not look "sharp" until you boost the resolution to at least 1200 dpi. The resolution usually used for setting text is normally from roughly 2400 – 2540 – 3200 dpi, and sometimes even higher.
"RSD99" wrote in message
About the only way I know of is to use a *printer driver* that will write
a
TIFF file … at any chosen resolution … and print the document to a (TIFF) or … if you must … a JPEG file.
Incidentally … JPG or JPEG is **not** a good format for anything that
has
sharp edges … such as text. It was specifically designed for
photographic
images (JPEG is actually an acronym for the ‘Joint Photographic Experts Group,’ an industry technical group), and can do several *very not nice* things to this kind of image. I would suggest that you use either TIF or PNG as the format of choice.
One suitable starting point would be
http://www.informatik.com/tiffwork.html
"Leila" wrote in message
Hi,
I have a frustrating problem. I have created a document using WordArt (I have Word 97) and some free fonts I found on the net. Some of these fonts were true type others not. I now want to convert this file to a jpg without losing quality. Someone told me to create a new page in PS at 300dpi and copy and paste the word document into that. However the document is 10 times smaller when I do this. WHY???
This has been bothering me for me and I am at my wits end. Can anybody please advise a way of converting this WordArt document into a jpg without losing quality or size???
Many thanks in advance,
Leila
RSD99,
Many thanks for your reply!
I didn’t realise that there was so much to take into consideration when transferring images from one package to another.
First things first: I am using PS 6.
Second, I want to PRINT out the images and keep the quality looking as I see it on screen – SMOOTH.
The reason I want to do this is simple. I want to create a number of transfers/decals for some corgi models that I am restoring. I have measured the size of the transfers I want to create, and used MS Word’s ruler to create WordArt images in exactly the same size. The reason I used WordArt is because it allows you to import nonstandard fonts and create some nice curved word shapes which I want to use for the decals. BTW: I have looked into doing this in PS and PSP and it just seems quite alot more complicated, not to mention the fact that I am a complete novice at graphics and I understand you cannot create the images I want using the non standard fonts.
So, I have created this word document, however I do not have a good enough printer at home to print the the document.
Someone said I should save the document as a jpg so i could copy it onto a cd and take it to work to print.
This is where the problem starts. I have tried just copying and pasting the document into PS. A box pops up at first asking what size and resolution and I inserted the size of an A4 page (21×29.5) and 300dpi. Apart from the images rendering ALOT smaller than my specification, it still comes out looking blocky. I will try your suggestions and get back to you.
Hope it works!
Leila