UK passport size prints in XP?

[MikeT]

UK Passport size is 35x45mm, I would like to print some pics of the kids this size for school bus passes which require dark, not light as in photo booth backgrounds. Anyway I just got a new camera so I want to make them

XP doesnt seem to cater for this size of print? Come on someone prove me wrong please

Other than using xp's own print wizard is there a freeware print assistant that will allow me to resize and print this dimension easily.

There doesnt seem to be a smiley for someone pulling out hair or I would have used it!

Thanks.

 

[Ian]

You could try downloading Paint Shop Pro for free (a trial anyway) and then resize it manually and print it from there - thats what I did a few years ago

 

[MikeT]

Yes I could Ian, but I would rather find a small freeware prog that will accept sizing in CM or MM so I can be sure what I want is what I get and I can reuse it each time they need passes.
I had a quick look round and there are lots of resizing progs available but they seem to use pixels, this is ok for the net or email but I would like to size in inches or metric units.

Someone on this board uses exactly what I need, you wait and see

 

[Me__2001]

i use a program called the GIMP, it is free and you can scale an image to any size in any scale you want

download this first and install it

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-win/gtk+-2.6.8-setup-1.zip?download

the once you've installed that you can install the main program

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-win/gimp-2.2.8-i586-setup.zip?download

 

[V_R]

http://www.irfanview.com/

This will do what you want.

You can resize in Pixels, CM or Inches. Plus some more cool things to play with.

I use it to resize photos for email and alike.

Hope it helps!

 

[MikeT]

Yep, that works a treat thanks, but I got stuck still at resize

How many should be in the box marked DPI?

It had just 1 in when I opened the resize box and I stuck 100 in there once I figured out what was causing crazy things to happen.

Original pic was 1600x1200 pixels and I wanted to go 35x45mm.

Of course once I got acceptable images I then couldnt find a way of printing multiples on a page with any of the s/ware I have here, ended up copying them into word and printing.

 

[floppybootstomp]

A second recomendation for Irfanview. Free and simple.

 

[MikeT]

Went for Irfanview in the end, Gimp was just too much info for me (sorry)

Managed to resize to exactly 35x45 in the end and print, I will have forgoten how to do it this time next year when No2 daughter wants a bus pass.

Thanks all

 

[JohnBenjamin]

Thank you very much for your information.







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[muckshifter]

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