I am assuming that you need a 300 dpi tiff because a printer told you
that is what you needed to send.
Correct?
Welll. Apart from those el-cheapo business cards, use of a tiff for a
page layout is not usually a good idea and is often the that attempt by
a macintosh-based operator who may actually know less than you about
this sort of thing. For a business card, well a tiff is usable and who
can argue with the price?..but I digress.
MSPub's SaveAs Tagged Image Format File (TIFF) option doesn't let you
specify the tiff resolution it uses. It just goes ahead and uses 150 dpi
like that was all anyone would ever want. Sigh.
Fortunately "dpi" is a changable attribute. It means dots per inch (in
this case it should be ppi or pixels per inch to be correct). Since Pub
won'tr let you alter the dpi, let's see what elsse we can alter to get
to the same place.
A business card (which I shall use as my example) is 3-1/2" x 2". At 150
dpi this means the tiff file is 3.5 x 150 pixels wide (mumble mumble)
525 pixels wide. Now, we want 300, or 1050 pixels wide.
twice as many pixels wide means make the page twice as wide in inches.
So make the busienss card 7 x 4 instead of 3.5 x 2. Then when you save
as tiff, you'll get the same data as a 300 dpi tiff. Your printer should
then be told the resize it down to the correct final size.
Now if they want your whole newsletter in a 300 dpi tiff...find another
printer. One that is not as stupid as this one is.
(or you could make your newsletter page larger 17 x 22. just make sure
you use type that's twice the size as well!)
