"ASAAR" wrote in message
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On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:29:24 GMT, Roy G wrote:


I took the question to be more about how to get the pictures
properly printed on 4" x 6" paper than to actually do image
resizing. And so . . .

When you select File - Print from IrfanView's menu, you get a
Print Preview window that allows you to specify the print size
without making any changes to the image file. Set the "Units" to cm
or inches, then select the Custom radio button. Make sure that the
Aspect Ratio box is checked, and then play with values for Width and
Height or the image might undergo some bizarre stretching. Beneath
the preview window IrfanView shows the "Resulting image size on
paper" in both cm and inches. Unless the image size already has a
4x6 aspect ratio you'll either have uneven white margins or no
margins, but with some truncation of the image. It's probably
easier to work with copies of the images, where you'd be free to
crop, rotate, spindle and mutilate.


Hi.

I have never really used Irfanview for anything other than Batch renaming,
and have not done that for ages, so I was not aware just how comprehensive
its printing Dialogue was.

I was, and still am a little concerned that the image will have been
compressed and saved several times and could be on the verge of showing Jpeg
Artifacts, hence my attempt at getting the poster to change physical
dimensions via PPI, rather than Interpolate.

But I think you have certainly solved her problem, with your very precise
instructions.

Roy G