How can i control the size of the printed image in MS Paint

[Ayush]

Hello Friends,

I'm running Windows Xp on my system. The problem is that i'm unable to use print or print preview in MS Paint. Whenever i try to print or print preview a particular picture in MS Paint, i get the actual picture shown on the right side of the page. I would like to know that how can i control the size of the printed image. does any one knows about it.? Kindly help me out to resolve the above issue.

Thanks a lot.

[Eric B]

DPI stands for 'dots per inch', and it refers to the accuracy with which a printer can print detail. If the detail is finer than 1/600th of an inch, a 600dpi printer can't reproduce it. For example, if two lines are closer together than 1/600th of an inch, they'll come out looking like one line if printed through a 600dpi printer. For printing, you must always work at your desired print size and resolution or higher, because if you work at a lower resolution/size, your art will be scaled up by the printer and will look rubbish. For example, I draw comic pages at A4 size, scan at 600dpi and print at A5, 600dpi. Drawing larger than the eventual product usually results in a better-looking piece of work than drawing at the same size or smaller. For what it's worth, the resolution of a monitor screen is about 72dpi.

I don't know what printer you're printing on, or what size you're printing your pages, or what size paper you're drawing on, so I can't give you a precise recommendation, but if you draw a bit larger than the end comic and scan at 600dpi, your work should look good printed on a 600dpi printer. One thing to note is that reducing an A4 image from 600dpi to 300dpi produces an A6 image (both length and width are halved).

[Glenny]

You can insert an object into a record in either Table Datasheet View, Form Datasheet View, or in Form View. You cannot type anything in the control. First, select the bound object frame or the datasheet cell.

• Method 1: Use the menu Insert Object. A dialog opens for you to create or select an object, which can be an image or spreadsheet or any other OLE object.
• Method 2: Drag and drop the file from a My Computer window into the field (Datasheet View) or control (Form View).
• Method 3: With the file open in the original program, copy it. Paste into the field (Datasheet View) or control (Form View).
• Sometimes you will only get a picture of what you copied and pasted. Sometimes you will get the whole document, even if you copied just part of it.

[JonathanD]

Changes from recent versions

• Disabled auto adjustment of barrel height when "raise port" outputs go negative:barrel adjusting itself was confusing.
• Extended the BMEP range up to 215psi/15bar with high/low range switch
• Added selection of resolutions for output of portmap image: 96 to 600 pixs/inch
• Fixed a bug when resizing window border to full screen, was not resizing front panel objects.
• Range of raise barrel control now increases with increasing stroke.

[Macarenas]

Open Paint and go to Image--> Attributes. Set the Units to inches and enter 8.5 and 11 for width and height.

Click the rectangle tool and draw a box at the required size. Change to the select tool and drag around your rectangle to select it. Ctrl-C to copy, then Crtl-V to paste. Move into position and repeat for the remaining boxes in the row. When you've got these aligned, select the whole row, copy and paste onto the next row and repeat until you've filled the page.