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    1. Re: [TMG] TMG exhibits for Second Site. (Was bmp versus jpg)
    2. Lee Hoffman/KY via
    3. At 7/12/2015 13:58, Tom Momeyer wrote: >dowensize to one size fits all, they may be too small to view/read. Tom makes a good point here. I rarely have a situation of printing Exhibit where "one size fits all. If I used that thinking for my Exhibits, a few would be fine and show well, while others would be too small and others too big. Most of my printed Exhibits are single and group pictures with some single pictures being cropped from a group picture. I very rarely print reports with census images, certificates, or the like as most are too big to start with and making them smaller to fit the page often makes them too small to read as Tom notes. Conversely, increasing the size of some Exhibits can (if scanned at a low resolution) may make them too fuzzy to read (one reason to scan nearly everything in high resolution. I generally scan in the highest resolution available to me knowing that I will very often print them in a smaller size/resolution. It is easy to downsize an image to a lower resolution whereas you can't increase the resolution once scanned (without re-scanning). Years ago, when computer storage was more expensive (I'm talking about a hard disk that is smaller than one high resolution image file today), it made sense to scan at lower resolution. But with a terabyte drive being almost the smallest one sees on a new computer, it is better to scan at the highest resolution and then work from that down to what is needed. Also, let me point out a feature of TMG (v8 and v9) that has not been mentioned when the various Exhibits to be printed are not a mix. That is, when the Exhibits are all either person images, group images or documents. So if you have a mix of these, ignore this option or de-select as it is not a one size fits all option. In addition to using various image editors to re-sizing Exhibit files for report printing, note that TMG can automatically reduce the size of Exhibits to a maximum size that you set on the Exhibits tab of the Report Definition Screen [Options] window. This setting is for the maximum heighth and width in either inches or centimeters (inches or centimeters is selected in Preferences). If you wish, you can restrict this resizing (e.g., downsizing) to person images only. Otherwise, TMG will resize (if selected) all images. Note that this is kind of a "one size fits all" option although it doesn't try to increase the size of an image. Still, it can help reduce the workload of preparing Exhibits for printing. I usually select the option and set the max values as about 2.5" H x 2.0" W. which seems to me a reasonable size for a person image. As noted, in many cases, it is not a one size fits all option; but it can be useful. Give it a try for all images and for only person images and see how it does for you. It may give you some ideas. Lee Hoffman/KY

    07/12/2015 11:09:24