[Ham-Computers] Photo Image Size Problem

[Colburn]

Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
> 	
> I hate to repeat a post, but I received no reply. Now one of you wizards surely
> has an answer to this.	
> 	
> I scan an 8X10 color print at 150 pi, scanner set to 'actual size' and saved to
> an image file. When finished, I select .jpg, the default is .bmp, and leave it
> at the default of 100% compression. I save it to a zip disk. 	
> 	
> I load the image into Corel Draw 5.0 on my Windows 98 system. I do not change
> any default settings. I simply select print and press enter. 	
> 	
> Now the picture that prints out is eight inches wide, but a fraction under seven
> inches high, not ten inches. The entire image is there. Why is it the wrong
> size? How do I correct this? 	
> 	
> Thank you. 	
> 	
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF  	
> dfischer@usol.com	

Two things occur to me, jpeg is a low-quality compression protocol and 
may have mangled something and Corel Draw made the best of the data it 
found, the other is perhaps that a setting is off in the proportions 
area at one end or the other.

Both are wild speculations.

73, doc kd4e