[Gimp-user] Document actual size is huge and not A4 crisis please help!

[PMan22 <forums gimpusers com>]

Hi thank you so much for helping! I plan to export as PDFs and upload them to an
online printing company to print on paper. I think the size problem I had was
actually just my inexperience and confusion about how these things work and it
is actually fine. Really appreciate your advice!

> The question I have is how do you intend to output your final recipe
> "book"?
> Will it be printed on paper by a printer, on a copy machine or on the
> web?
>
> I set up a page in GIMP the same size as yours—880mm x 1248 mm at 106
> pixels
> per inch (ppi)—put some 12 pt and 15 pt type on it, exported it as a
> jpg and
> inserted it on an A4 size page in WORD. It fit perfectly on A4. It
> could
> even be reduced a bit to allow for a binding margin on the spine. 
> What's
> the problem?
>
> Rick S.
>
> BTW, GIMP is not the best program for laying out text-heavy books, but
> you
> use what you've got I guess.
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: PMan22
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 12:17 PM
> To: gimp-user-list gnome org
> Subject: [Gimp-user] Document actual size is huge and not A4 crisis
> please
> help!
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm currently making a recipe book for charity in GIMP 2.10. I've made
> all
> of
> the pages on A4 templates. However, when measuring something today I
> noticed
> the
> results in mm were huge! This led me to realise that my documents are 
> ginormous!
> 880mm x 1240mm approx. I normally have it set to pixels which don't
> mean a
> lot
> to me (I've not had any formal training in graphic design or the
> software)
> so I
> guess I didn't notice. I've already spent months on this project and
> the
> prospect of remaking all of the pages is daunting as I have my actual
> work
> to do
> as well. The weird thing is when I copy and paste items from a page
> into an
> actual A4 template the scale is the same. I've definitely always
> selected A4
> template. Has anyone ever had this problem or know how to fix it? Is
> it just
> a
> glitch? The pages as exported JPEGS in actual size are also huge, but
> again
> I
> never noticed as they were always scaled fit to page before. Please
> help!!
> Thanks so much in advance!

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