Printing and DPI

I have just read the link above, and I understand it fine, but regarding the point I made, i.e. to view the document at 'Print Size', the program needs to know the monitor's ppi, it's still a valid point.

Sometimes I might be doing a document with images and text (my leaflet is a case in point) and I want to see how large the text will actually be, without actually printing out a sample. If the program knew the ppi of your monitor, when you told it to display at 'print size', it would be able to resample the image to display it at the exact size it would be printed, rather than an approximation that is always wrong in my experience. So in this respect, I shan't forget about monitor ppi!

Dan

Simply set you DPI the same as your PPI and view at 100%, done.
Don't know how usefull though

Devide the DPI through your screen PPI and view at that precentage, the sizes should be compareable... atleast I believe it would be...

Next to useless, I think.

That's right. My monitor that displays at 90ppi would need a view of 30% to show a 300ppi image at exact print size. Any ideas how I can view at 30% in Elements? I can do 25% or 33%. 'Print Size' from the options is 24%, which is way too small.

Oo, just seen that using the scroll button on the mouse I can get 30.3%, which is pretty close. Just a shame the 'Print Size' view is so far out.

Double 'Oo'! Just discovered the option for setting your screen resolution in the preferences - now set at 90 pixels/inch and 'Print Size' is now spot on!

Dan

For the record in addition to the ways you have found you can simply select the zoom level in the box and enter whatever figure you choose.

Michael

It's very simple to zoom at 30%, simply fill in 30 were you see the zoom precentage

Also there is a button to get the print size, simply click on the zoom tool and where you can change the options of that tool you see print size, that's even easier

I thought "Box? That must be something in the later versions...", but having opened PSE up, I've just spotted it lurking bottom left.

Funny how you get along perfectly well with something without knowing half of what it does.

Dan

I've always read the percentage in the header bar, so never noticed it bottom left.

I've always used the menu option: View>Print Size. Ususally zooming in and out is just ctrl+ or ctrl-, so I never use the zoom tool either.

Dan

I've always used the bottom left box not the one in the header bar, but after a bit of quick experimenting I think the bottom box lets you enter fractions whereas the header box only works in whole numbers.

Michael