Add pages from a .afphoto file

[Joachim_L]

First surprised that it is possible, second why not? But there is something strange going on here or is it by design?

1) Make a screenshot (96 dpi), crop it to your likings, do not raster & trim, do not change the dpi and save as .afphoto.

2) Create a 300 dpi Publisher document and add the .afphoto file as a page. Sidenote: The preview of the file shows only the cropped area. So what would you expect happens next?

Result: A page with the uncropped image will be added in a smaller spread size. OK, nearly fine with that. The APu file has 300 dpi, the AP file only 96 dpi, so the spread gets smaller. One can argue, you haven't rasterised and trimmed the image so the whole undestructed image gets added. But why do the preview of the file does not keep its promise? No complaint, just an observation. Now for the strange part.

1) Create a 96 dpi Publisher document.

2) Add a page from a 300 dpi A4 .afpub file. So what would you expect happens next?

Result: An A4 page is added, with spread size called custom and 210 x 297 mm (not A4 selected in the pulldown).

So if we add a 96 dpi document in a 300 dpi document the added page is smaller (approx. 33 %), why is a 300 dpi added page in a 96 dpi document not approx. 333 % bigger?

[Sean P]

Hi Joachim_L,

You're saying that the 96 DPI A4 document you're creating is showing as A4 in the Page Preset. This is correct behaviour - the A4 Page Preset uses 300 dpi, and as you've changed that, it is no longer the same preset, hence why it shows as custom. Just checking the spread setup, before adding the page from file will show it as custom. This is intentional, as it differs from the built in preset.

The other issue you're seeing is because the pages are always being added using their actual physical dimensions, therefore as both pages are A4, they'll appear as A4 when imported. Granted this may result in a slight loss of quality, but that is something that will get picked up by preflight. Note that if you import a file that uses pixels as it's units, then it will get scaled to the same pixel size based on the DPI of the document you're importing it into, so it will change size.

[Joachim_L]

Thanks for the detailed explanation. This clears the questionmarks on my forehead.

[carl123]

3 hours ago, Joachim_L said:

Result: A page with the uncropped image will be added

The context menu option called Page Box seems to have an effect on that

The TrimBox setting shows the cropped image