Strange…….never had this

So we had two slides that were supposed to go on a huge 3 meter by 2,5 meter poster for a stand.

The slides had two guys in them, we brought them to the
lithographer who scanned them in at the right size (the guys are now 1,5 meter high), right resoltion (300 DPI) and
because we are out of time I asked them to make them free standing also (transparent, no background, what is the
english term).

We get the files back in TIFF. We import the files in the XPress document (which as our poster printer told us should be 25% of the end size).
And surprize……..the 1,50 meter high guys are now in
XPress just around 10 centimeters high………..we tried everything, but could not find the solution. The litographer does not have a clue either. When we scale the guys up (the really need to be 1,50 meters so in the XPress document 25% of that, 32 what centimeters) they still look good after that scaling, but I do not trust it!

Anyone here???

On Tue, 10 May 2005 20:10:27 +0200, steggy
wrote:

So we had two slides that were supposed to go on a huge 3 meter by 2,5 meter poster for a stand.

The slides had two guys in them, we brought them to the
lithographer who scanned them in at the right size (the guys are now 1,5 meter high), right resoltion (300 DPI) and
because we are out of time I asked them to make them free standing also (transparent, no background, what is the
english term).

We get the files back in TIFF. We import the files in the XPress document (which as our poster printer told us should be 25% of the end size).
And surprize……..the 1,50 meter high guys are now in
XPress just around 10 centimeters high………..we tried everything, but could not find the solution. The litographer does not have a clue either. When we scale the guys up (the really need to be 1,50 meters so in the XPress document 25% of that, 32 what centimeters) they still look good after that scaling, but I do not trust it!

Anyone here???

Nope, but I’d guess it’s yet another Quark f**k up. 🙂

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We get the files back in TIFF. We import the files in the XPress document (which as our poster printer told us should be 25% of the end size).
And surprize……..the 1,50 meter high guys are now in
XPress just around 10 centimeters high………..we tried everything, but could not find the solution. The litographer does not have a clue either. When we scale the guys up (the really need to be 1,50 meters so in the XPress document 25% of that, 32 what centimeters) they still look good after that scaling, but I do not trust it!

Anyone here???
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steg

We get the files back in TIFF. We import the files in the XPress document (which as our poster printer told us should be 25% of the end size).
And surprize……..the 1,50 meter high guys are now in
XPress just around 10 centimeters high………..

In article ,
steggy wrote:

We get the files back in TIFF. We import the files in the XPress document (which as our poster printer told us should be 25% of the end size).
And surprize……..the 1,50 meter high guys are now in
XPress just around 10 centimeters high………..

Open the TIFF in Photoshop and look at the resolution; it sounds like the resolution is incorrect. (Many high-end drum scanners use metric units; are you sure the scans are not 300 pixels per *centimeter*?)
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