DPI for downloadable Save As PDF "Steve Thackery" <thack[ at ]nowhere.net> 6/27/2007 11:41:52 PM I'm using Word 2007 with the downloadable "Save As PDF" plug-in to produce a correspondence course for a customer. The document contains lots of photographs and diagrams. It produces good results, but my customer needs to know what dots-per-inch the graphics will be. I've searched the Microsoft MSDN, and everywhere else, but I can't find this information. Nor is it settable in the software itself, other than the pretty unhelpful "save for print" and "save for online" option - which doesn't tell you what it's doing. Can anyone help? Thanks, Steve

Re: DPI for downloadable Save As PDF Charlie Hoffpauir <invalid[ at ]invalid.com> 6/28/2007 12:59:04 AM On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:41:52 +0100, "Steve Thackery" <thack[ at ]nowhere.net> wrote: [Quoted Text] >I'm using Word 2007 with the downloadable "Save As PDF" plug-in to produce a >correspondence course for a customer. The document contains lots of >photographs and diagrams. > >It produces good results, but my customer needs to know what dots-per-inch >the graphics will be. > >I've searched the Microsoft MSDN, and everywhere else, but I can't find this >information. Nor is it settable in the software itself, other than the >pretty unhelpful "save for print" and "save for online" option - which >doesn't tell you what it's doing. > >Can anyone help? > >Thanks, > >Steve > DPI is pretty neaningless information for electronic digital images. Your customer probably really needs to know the pixel size of the images, ie, 1280x1024, or whatever, to know what size they will appear on-screen. He can then select what DPI he wishes to print at to control the overall image size on paper. IOW, DPI has meaning only in terms of a printed image. Charlie Hoffpauir http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

Re: DPI for downloadable Save As PDF Charlie Hoffpauir <invalid[ at ]invalid.com> 6/28/2007 1:15:50 AM On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:41:52 +0100, "Steve Thackery" <thack[ at ]nowhere.net> wrote: [Quoted Text] >I'm using Word 2007 with the downloadable "Save As PDF" plug-in to produce a >correspondence course for a customer. The document contains lots of >photographs and diagrams. > >It produces good results, but my customer needs to know what dots-per-inch >the graphics will be. > >I've searched the Microsoft MSDN, and everywhere else, but I can't find this >information. Nor is it settable in the software itself, other than the >pretty unhelpful "save for print" and "save for online" option - which >doesn't tell you what it's doing. > >Can anyone help? > >Thanks, > >Steve > As a bit of further information, I did some tests with my version of Word (2002 any Adobe Acrobat 6). I loaded a JPEG image, size 784 x 1028 into word, then saved the file as a PDF. Then opened the PDF in Acrobat, and extracted the image to a new JPEG file. Basically, the image is unchanged, still 784 x 1028 pixels in size, still about 150 KB in size. So I'd think you can tell your customer whatever size you insert the images as is what they can expect to end up with. But run a few tests yourself to make sure that is what is happening with Word 2007 also. Charlie Hoffpauir http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/