Self Published printing- Lesson learned.......I hope!
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@Camomilla I just replied to you but forgot to hit the reply to YOUR specific post so, please look at the general one I just submitted to everyone
Thanks! You sound like you know what your talking about! I will look for a print and press quality option when I export....Marsha Ottum Owen
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@lmrush Hi! I will try to explain but I am not sure I will be very clear since I'm a bit confused myself. I am using GIMP, not photoshop, if that makes a difference. So far I have scanned my images and then adjusted and cropped them in something called XNview and saved them on my desktop. I opened them from my desktop into GIMP where I went through each image and cleaned it up and scaled it so they would all be the same size. (The original images were all done traditionally). I'm actually doing it again because I first scanned them as JPEG's which was not the way to go for best image quality. It loses something because it is a compressed file (or something similar-my husband explained it to me last night but I only kind of got the gist-can't explain it-maybe someone else can. something about losing some pixels). Once I learn about the next phase of exporting the files and making them into a PDF, I will let you know how that went
Hopefully I can do that tomorrow morning or this week end sometime. I'm anxious to finish up and take a little break Marsha Ottum Owen
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@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen I've worked in the graphic industry for over 20 years, and my background includes working in publishing, advertizing and newspapers. I also worked for a large-format printing company for a while. I've been sending things off to print for two decades, so I've picked up a few things along the way
I'm, however, not familiar with Gimp, I've always used Photoshop for image-touch-ups. But I assume there's an option in Gimp to export as PDF, and you can't really go wrong with this if you just make sure it's set to Print and Press quality when you export My version of Photoshop is Norwegian, but you see where I've highlighted - this should say press quality in english
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Thank you so much for sharing this, Camomilla. I rescanned all the images and am still re cleaning and resizing them but I will soon be ready for this step! GIMP is a free opensource software. It stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. (in case you are curious
)Marsha Ottum Owen
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@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen My son found createPDF software that I could use to convert the files to PDF. Now I just need to figure out how to make one multi-page document, I guess. Maybe I bit off more than I can chew!
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@lmrush Hello. I don't know what program you are using for your images. My son found something called PDF creator for free online. We used it to change the files to PDF's pretty easily. I still need to make it into one big file and I don't think the images are the right scale anymore so I need to see if I can resize them somehow. Almost done! I made copies today and spray glued the pages together so I could put a book together and get a feel for how it will look. I kind of wish I would have taken a chance and found someone else to do all this publishing work
Oh well. It will keep my brain active Marsha Ottum Owen
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@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen To make one document of several:
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You can make multi page PDF documents out of images with a free program called XNView and XNView MP as well. I use XNView MP.
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Oh! I have xnview on my computer. Thanks!
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@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen Thanks for your expert help, Camomilla! Takk for hjelpen
(I'm learning Norwegian on duolingo 5 minutes a day :-)....You ARE Norwegian, right? My Grandparents families came from Sogn og Fjordane.Marsha Ottum Owen
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@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen Yes, I'm Norwegian
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@Camomilla Jeg liker du og iskrem
I just sent my PDF's loose tothe printer and am hoping he'll still take them. With GIMP and all these other plug ins and programs, etc. I just couldn't figure it all out. I should probably invest in photoshop but I contacted the GIMP people, just in case. We'll see if they can help a poor computer struggler like me. So much to learn..........I may have bitten off more than I can chew with the whole self publishing but now I am committed Have a nice day!Marsha Ottum Owen
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@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen Veldig bra
Except you have to use "deg" in stead of "du" in the sentence. So the sentence would be "Jeg liker deg og iskrem" Takk, jeg liker deg også -
Oh, those degs and dus are confusing! Along with det den and de.....:-) I need to look atg my grammar book a bit one of these days
Have a wonderful day! I'm heading off to Arkansas Marsha Ottum Owen
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@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen Yes, I suppose they are, but don't worry, you got the message across regardless
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@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen Thank you so much!
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@lmrush You're more than welcome and...guess what? I finally go tit right and it's at the printers
I got a one copy to look at today, needed to fix a couple of things so they will do one more and then it will be printed! I'm kind of tired of looking at it myself but, hopefully 300 other people will like it Marsha Ottum Owen
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@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen I am going through the same learning pains at the moment. At least we will know how to do it when we are done
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@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen Congratulations!!!! Good for you! Don't forget to share
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I want to see too
