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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Scaling Bitmaps - help!
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Date: 28 Mar 91 03:23:06 GMT
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In article <7198@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>, dl1@ukc.ac.uk (D.Langford) writes:
> 
> I have access here to most of the DTP and drawing packages - which
> is the best for scaling a bitmap? Ought I too convert it to PICT?
> Or the 300 dpi offered by applications like Retouch? Neither seems
> to do much for the image!

I don't know if it's best, but MacDraw II lets you scale bitmaps
very easily and see exactly what dpi you have changed it to.

In MacDraw II 1.1, paste in your bitmap.  Turn on Show Sizes.  Once
you click on the bitmap it will show you what the horizontal and vertical
dpi is dowm at the bottom of the window.

If you want to scale the bitmap, simply grab one of the handles and
drag it in smaller or larger.  The dpi shown at the bottom will track
what the current dpi is.  

It makes it easy to scale a 300 dpi bitmap to say 150 exactly.

-- michael

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