Preserved Topic: 300 dpi that displays at 72 dpi online?

I wanna make this web coupon that gets printed, but printing at 72 dpi looks crappy. If I make the image 300 dpi it just is all huge on the webpage, so what's the solution?

-jiblet

PDF

Weak, i prefer to have 2 seperate files, one to show on the page, and one to linnk to. Hmm, i think that's what i'll do. thanks


-jiblet

jiblet - don't listen to jiblet, listen to linear.

Allow me to quote:
"PDF"

heh, but force people to download a plugin? Why not just use flash and create a spiffy animation so that they never wanna print anything again?

-jiblet

Actually using flash might be just the solution for you! Because since version 4.20 the flash reader can do printing (it has been around for about a year and a half now) Then you can print something which is not visible. So you could import the high res. picture in the swf file, but display it only at a smaller size. And when the visitor press a print button that you create the high res version will be printed, without them ever seeing it on the screen. And since we are talking about coupons I imagine there might be a lot of text and vector graphic on them, and then flash is ideal also since it reduce the size a lot, compared to having the high res as a picture.

But I sense that you have something against flash...

As for PDF it is so much a standard these days that you need not worry about people having to download a plugin. They already have it.

I am thinking about taking the advice and using PDF, but that will require a link anyway, because PDF doesn't allow embedding directly into a webpage, correct?

-jiblet

It'll work in a frame, but that introduces all kinds of new printing madness.