Your cover ideas please.

[Sylvester 15]

hmm i doubled the size but now hotmail won't let me send it cos it's too big...

[Sylvester 15]

all i did was enlarge it on Paintbrush, i didn't up the dpi's...

[Chris Perkins 228]

As it's a bmp it should be ok as long as the text/graphics are smooth and not pixelated. Can you zip it up and send it? Bmp's compress well.

[Sylvester 15]

As it's a bmp it should be ok as long as the text/graphics are smooth and not pixelated. Can you zip it up and send it? Bmp's compress well.

i've had another idea actually...

I dunno if i'll get chance to send it tonight, but i can send it in two parts, and it shouldn't take too long to put back together.

[Chris Perkins 228]

The cover is getting important, can you send me it on a floppy disc sylvester, or is it too large??

[Sylvester 15]

The cover is getting important, can you send me it on a floppy disc sylvester, or is it too large??

My disc drive is out of action...

I can put it on CD though and ship that to you, i'm going to the Post Office tomoz. I've been trying to send it but my email will just not let me attach it cos it's too big.

I'm not all that convinced on how good it is either. (I mean pixel quality wise and all).

JMD did a good one but has promptly vanished. So if all else fails could someone do a back up one now just incase the one i had done is not suitable or possible (bad resolution or whatever). At least if we have a reliable back up to fall back on then should any last minute emergency's arise we are more prepared.

I'll burn my copy of the one i did onto a disc and post it off to you tomorrow Chris.

[Chris Perkins 228]

Thanks, how big is it in Mb?

A backup cover would be good, I mean I'm sure I could knock one up, but if I use one from you lot I'll be sure to give you credit for the cover design!

[Sylvester 15]

Thanks, how big is it in Mb?

A backup cover would be good, I mean I'm sure I could knock one up, but if I use one from you lot I'll be sure to give you credit for the cover design!

It was quite big (huge probably), but i've had another inspiring idea.

1) Have you got paintbrush picture or some other software package that can blow up the cover.

Cos i can send you the smaller copy i have by email (it should work) and i'll let you have a go at enlarging it. I just kinda dragged the corners and sides of it in paintbush till it didn't fit on the page. I should be able to send you a bitmap image of it in the small style. I'll give it a go for nothing.

Hopefully you can enlarge it (then we'll have to see if it is good), now PB picture doesn't ashow the size of it (it may be almost big enough already).

One way to find out is to copy and paste it to microsoft word, unfortunately my word is on the blink so i have not been able to do this.

[Sylvester 15]

Thanks, how big is it in Mb?

the small version is 505KB i think.

The larger version was 2.24 MB! (hotmail's limit was 2MB... so they removed it everytime cos it was over my limit).

Sent the small version.

[Emperor Oli 0]

Hotmail is expanding everything soon or it may be right now, I can't remember. The inbox size is being upgraded to something ridiculous and attachments can be up to 20MB.

[Chris Perkins 228]

I'm sure you could zip the 2.24mb to less than 2mb....Or was that already zipped?

[Sylvester 15]

I'm sure you could zip the 2.24mb to less than 2mb....Or was that already zipped?

i've tried zipping it won't do that either.

Can you blow up the small one i sent?

[Sylvester 15]

I can't actually design the smaller one any bigger from the off because it would be off of the page (anyone who is familiar with paint will know what i'm on about).

Can anyone else blow the image up?

[Chris Perkins 228]

No, if it gets blown up it will loose definition.

[Sylvester 15]

No, if it gets blown up it will loose definition.

Chris have you opened it in Word? Open in Paintbrush copy and paste it to word.

I did it to Word pad and from the looks of it it might not be too far off you know.

You see if you open it in word you can look at the ruler on the top of the page and down the side and it will give you an idea of the size. If my word was still working i would have done it already.

[Sylvester 15]

And if my printer worked i would have printed one off and adjusted the sizes accordingly!

[Sylvester 15]

Arrgh!

So yes it is too small, needed to go 2 inches widthways (don't know how much down cos Wordpad doesn't have a side bar ruler).

Which means it's almost impossible to gauge on Paintbrush cos it requires one to scroll down and you can see the whole thing on one page.

Now i resized it so far as i could and it's almost right but the resolution suffered as i expected.

I did have another plan but the lack of a side ruler on wordpad will probably foil me. If i could find a way of inserting a box to the right dimensions on wordpad and then copy that to paint then start the whole thing again from scratch i may be feesible.

It's a longshot though.

[Sylvester 15]

HELP!!!

Right can someone with access to Microsoft word go on word and draw a box to the dimensions of 5 inches and 10/16ths wide by 7" and 13/16ths long?

Copy and paste it to paint and then email the box outline to me? Then i'll know how big the area i have got to fill is!

I will not be defeated. But if no-ones does this for me then i will not be able to do the cover at all, so please help!

[Master Jmd 80]

um...how do i manage to mesure this box?

(i can do this if you say how)

[Sylvester 15]

um...how do i manage to mesure this box?

(i can do this if you say how)

In word there are rulers at the side of the page... usually in inches (make sure it's in inches and not PIXELS!)

You can also have it in cm's if it's in cm's then the measures will be...

14.3cm wide by 21cms long.

Now there is a way of making sure that it is in those but i forget how, another method might be to change the page set up to A5 portrait and just draw a box round the edge of the page (if you follow my meaning). That would also be correct.

[Master Jmd 80]

hmm...it seems a bit big (i have followed your '14.3cm wide by 21cms long')...can you PM me your email...i do not know how to send attachments through the predecimal emailing thingy

[Sylvester 15]

Excellent! Will do...

I've just got the Gothic Florin image ready again...

I'll get this to you by tonight Chris and that should be another worry off of your mind.

[Master Jmd 80]

its sent

[Sylvester 15]

its sent

i got it but i just got a blank page, can you copy it to paint and send it as a bmp file?

[Sylvester 15]

Right i've got it, and i'm now working on the resized cover, hopefully this will be acceptable!