Marie, this will depend on a number of factors. The first consideration is the quality of the image you were sent. You can test this by opening it in your photo editing program to see if the text is clear and readable. If it is not increase the magnification to something like 200%. Can you read the text clearly then? If you can it should be possible to print it in readable format. Next, look at the image to see if there are "superfluous" areas surrounding the text. That is, is there a lot of "extra" space surrounding the text that does not need to be included - you just want the text. If there is, use the "crop" tool in your photo editor to remove as much of this space as possible. Then using "SAVE AS" (most important!!) save this cropped image. If you just choose SAVE it will mean your original image will be altered and you won't be able to return to it. Now choose FILE|PRINT PREVIEW in your photo editor and see what the new image looks like. If it is still not to your liking go to FILE|PRINT| and select settings that allow the image to occupy the WHOLE PAGE. You will find that option on the Setup page (depending on your program). This will "blow up" the image so that when you print it you will get a page full, rather than have the image just showing as a small photo on a large page. As I said depending on the quality of the original, you may have to do a bit of "playing around" with the image to get it "readable". The actual print quality need not be spot-on, just good enough to read the text so you can extract what you need. Lance -----Original Message----- From: Marie Young [mailto:heartseas@bigpond.com] Sent: Tuesday, 6 July 2004 17:15 To: GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Gen-Comp-Tips] How can I make the text larger? I have been sent a photograph of a cemetery list as an attachment, which I have printed but the text is too small. I have tried to enlarge it without success. Can someone please help.? Marie in Australia Such is Life --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0428-1, 2004-07-09 Tested on: 10/07/2004 9:08:05 AM avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com
Lane, Great advice on how to make text larger..I'm learning so much since I joined this mail list Thanks, Nancy in Fairfax -----Original Message----- From: Lance [mailto:hty31b5@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:09 PM To: GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [Gen-Comp-Tips] How can I make the text larger? Marie, this will depend on a number of factors. The first consideration is the quality of the image you were sent. You can test this by opening it in your photo editing program to see if the text is clear and readable. If it is not increase the magnification to something like 200%. Can you read the text clearly then? If you can it should be possible to print it in readable format. Next, look at the image to see if there are "superfluous" areas surrounding the text. That is, is there a lot of "extra" space surrounding the text that does not need to be included - you just want the text. If there is, use the "crop" tool in your photo editor to remove as much of this space as possible. Then using "SAVE AS" (most important!!) save this cropped image. If you just choose SAVE it will mean your original image will be altered and you won't be able to return to it. Now choose FILE|PRINT PREVIEW in your photo editor and see what the new image looks like. If it is still not to your liking go to FILE|PRINT| and select settings that allow the image to occupy the WHOLE PAGE. You will find that option on the Setup page (depending on your program). This will "blow up" the image so that when you print it you will get a page full, rather than have the image just showing as a small photo on a large page. As I said depending on the quality of the original, you may have to do a bit of "playing around" with the image to get it "readable". The actual print quality need not be spot-on, just good enough to read the text so you can extract what you need. Lance -----Original Message----- From: Marie Young [mailto:heartseas@bigpond.com] Sent: Tuesday, 6 July 2004 17:15 To: GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Gen-Comp-Tips] How can I make the text larger? I have been sent a photograph of a cemetery list as an attachment, which I have printed but the text is too small. I have tried to enlarge it without success. Can someone please help.? Marie in Australia Such is Life --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0428-1, 2004-07-09 Tested on: 10/07/2004 9:08:05 AM avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com ______________________________