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Hi

I have a number of both typed and hand written references that have been given to me by past customers of my business and i want to include them on my website.

I have scanned one of the typed references and saved it as a jpeg image in the images folder within the main website folder (also tried saving as a tiff file but this didnt seem to work) and have put a link to it on my homepage. The link and everything works fine, the reference shows but the problem I have is that the text image is far too big ie the letters are massive and you have to scroll left to right and up and down to read the reference in it's entirety. Now even though the initial scanning of the document produced the very same overblown image I was able to zoom out to 25% and the document's text fitted perfectly on the page I then simply saved it like that. However as i say when you go to my website and click the link to the 'reference' page it shows itself with the huge text again. Any idea how i can rectify this?

cheers
craig

cheers
craig

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Either resize the document in Irfanview (not using zoom - that just changes your view not the document size) or set size limits using html. Personally I'd do the former- set the width to 550 - 600 pixels.

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Hi Craig
As with a picture and that is what a scanned page is, you reduce its size in pixels (hight/width).
Just like posting a picture on IDF.
I assume the pages are A4 size, save them as jpg,
see the link below of a scanned page on my website.
R/click on it, select properties to show the size it was saved at.
This will give you a guide as to the size you require.

http://www.petersassortment.idf50.co...1/history2.htm

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Craig

If the zoom to 25% makes it fit perfectly, that would seem to suggest that your pic should be a quarter the size it is.

So if it was 400 x 600 pixels reduce it to 200 x 300 pixels ?

Will the type still be readable though ?

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hi guys took your advice and altered the pixel size of the scanned A4 image and it looks like this:

http://www.a1roofingservices.co.uk/references.html

Not sure if it's good enough though for people to read properly?

craig

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OK I would scan it again and save at a higher pixel size, its just a shade to small to read comfortably.
Try 800 pix longest side (Ht), if that's to large try 700 pix longest side (Ht).
Be sure to select "maintain aspect ratio".

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hi pete
did as u suggested and set longest side to 700 but unfortunately it made the image blurred , i put it back to its original pixel size and it still remeains blurred:

www.a1roofingservices.co.uk/references.html

Maybe thats cos I have altered the size a couple of times and need to completely re scan the page and then set it at the bigger pixel size as per your suggestion?
In that case i will do it at weekend when Ive more time.

One thing before i try that tho pete and that is that I dont want to scanned larger pixel image to come outside of the layer box in which it currently resides, it wont do this will it only I want to keep this uniform size thruout the pages to line up with the width of the banner across the top with the company name in ?

Craig

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Yes I would say a re-scan of the original is required to get the clarity back.
As you want to stay within the confines of the layer box, you are stuck with the original size you did first.
You could try this (just an idea) open the original in MS Word and highlight the document text,
and increase the print size EG 10 to 12 and save it.
Size 12 text is a good size for this type of thing as per my web example.
Its another trial and error situation.

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