Comments on: Page Prints Too Small

By: Mara Rolfes

Mara Rolfes — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:41:03 +0000

InDesgin Newbie, Day Five!
CS3, v5.0.2. Doc size is 7.5 x 16.25. When I print to my Xerox 7700 on 11 x17 paper, the piece is about 1/16″ short. When I print to 12 x 18 paper, it’s about 1.25″ short! Why can’t I just hit print and get it to come out the size it needs to be? A plain English answer is needed here. I’ve been using the “other” product for over 15 years. This issue is really putting a dark cloud over the switch to InDesign for me.

Thanks,
Mara

By: Christa Floor

Christa Floor — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:11:03 +0000

Thanks muchly everyone

By: federico platón

federico platón — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:53:45 +0000

Well, but let’s state clear the zoom factor, the value I have to write in that tiny little window at the bottom left of the ID document is not the effective resolution of my monitor, the same as Eugene (mine is a D***), 94ppi, but the percenatge of dividing 94 by 72, it goes in our case to: 132%. That’s the number to place there or editing this nice javascript kindly posted here (thanks).
Then I use the method of David and place a ruler along the top of the ID doc window just to check that both match.
Regards

By: Eugene

Eugene — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:36:22 +0000

My reply initially was to Christa Floor. Sorry.

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:24:14 +0000

David, that’s exactly the method I described in my first posting. But Eugene, that nefarious quantum designer, forced my hand — so this got out of hand!

Thanks for the link to the script, perish the thought that folks should have to copy-paste a line of code — we’re Artists here, not Geeks.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:34:29 +0000

While I love the precision of Klaus and Eugene, this is one place where I tend toward a simple, brute method: Put a ruler up against the screen change the zoom percentage in the lower-left corner of the document window until 1-inch (or 100 mm or whatever unit you're looking at) on the on-screen ruler equals the same measurement on the real-world ruler. That's the zoom percentage you put in the script. By the way, we posted the script here, in case you don't want to copy and paste that one line.

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:32:39 +0000

if it helps you can just use the google calculator. In the search field put in sqrt(1920^2+1200^2)/24

Obviously inserting your own resolution size in before the ^2 and divide by your own screen width (along the diagnol if you need to measure it, from corner to corner).

So for example, a 17 inch monitor at 800 x 600 would be

sqrt(800^2+600^2)/17 = 58.8

And that’s the PPI of the monitor. 58.8 ppi.

Google calculator rocks.

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:16:58 +0000

To simplify Eugene’s quantum physics: the effective PPI of any screen is whatever the current screen “resolution’s” horizontal pixel vale is — divided by its length in inches. Since you can run the same physical screen at, say, both 800×600 and 1200×1600, it stands to reason that no screen has an “intrinsic” PPI of either 72 or 96 or any other hard-wired number — such values are pure myths. It all depends on how many pixels you throw at it at a given time.

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:05:30 +0000

Well your screen is ppi for starters. You can find it out by sqrt(horizRes^2+vertRes^2)/screensize

So my screen is set to 1920 x 1200 and it’s 24inches

sqrt(1920^2+1200^2) =

2,264 approx.

divided by 24

Which gives me 94 ppi on my monitor.

Most are in and around 90 – 100 ppi.

Eugene

By: Christa Floor

Christa Floor — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:42:44 +0000

how do I find out what my screen dpi is (never knew it wasn’t 72!) and how do I know what percentage to make the zoom script?