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| location | Chicago, IL | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
| seen | Sep 27 '12 at 18:27 | |
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Mar 25 |
awarded | Notable Question |
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Sep 27 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Jul 17 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Jul 17 |
accepted | All PDF's appear to be 72 dpi, no matter what |
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Jul 17 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Feb 9 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Feb 9 |
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All PDF's appear to be 72 dpi, no matter what @DAO, I don't believe I'm grasping onto anything from the old world, AFAIK... I mainly deal with graphics for websites and measuring in pixels alone suits me just fine. I just don't have the expertise to speak on the traditions and conventions of the professional printing world. |
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Feb 9 |
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All PDF's appear to be 72 dpi, no matter what @DA01, that may be the case and it explains a lot. However, when I inspected my PDF created from a 3300 x 2550 pixel source, I did not expect to see a size of "792 x 612". Those smaller dimensions would exactly correspond to a shift from 300 dpi to 72 dpi using the same 11" x 8.5" paper size. As it turns out, "792 x 612" is 'points' and not pixels, hence my original confusion. |
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Feb 8 |
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All PDF's appear to be 72 dpi, no matter what It's a 3300 x 2550 pixel file set to 300 dpi yielding a 11 x 8.5 canvas. So as long as those dimensions in Photoshop are what I want, the PDF should be adequate (provided there is no down-samplings setting), right? By "adequate", I'm expecting to be able to print to 11 x 8.5 inches with the equivalent of 300 "dots" per inch of paper. |
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Feb 8 |
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All PDF's appear to be 72 dpi, no matter what +1, Yes, exactly. Sadly, I knew all this... it just took all day to realize I was not looking at pixel dimensions in the "Get Info" box. Apple should really have it labeled better in there. "Get info" on the PSD shows "3300 x 2550"... again without any units. Being so used to seeing numbers representing pixels, I guess I just naturally expected those numbers to always represent pixels. |
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Feb 8 |
awarded | Student |
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Feb 8 |
awarded | Editor |
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Feb 8 |
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All PDF's appear to be 72 dpi, no matter what edited title |
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Feb 8 |
answered | All PDF's appear to be 72 dpi, no matter what |
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Feb 8 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Feb 8 |
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All PDF's appear to be 72 dpi, no matter what @e100: I think I figured out what's actually happening and I'll post as an answer shortly. |
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Feb 8 |
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All PDF's appear to be 72 dpi, no matter what @e100: I started with 300 dpi. Then to play it safe and see if it made any difference, I selected "no compression". It made no difference. |
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Feb 8 |
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All PDF's appear to be 72 dpi, no matter what @e100: I can't comment on what those profiles are supposed to do. All I can tell you is that they take a 300 dpi original and save it as a 72 dpi PDF. |
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Feb 8 |
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All PDF's appear to be 72 dpi, no matter what @e100: Yes, totally different 300 dpi file on totally different machine using PS CS3 also outputs a 72 dpi file. The latest version of Pixelmator software does the same thing. |
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Feb 8 |
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All PDF's appear to be 72 dpi, no matter what Same result in Photoshop CS3. Also tried Pixelmator with no luck. |
