Reply To: Scaling artwork

I’m in book publishing, and in most cases, the art is scaled and kept that way.

BUT–sometimes if we positioned low-res art and the printer is going to create and tweak the high-res from film, we give them our scaling sizes.

Then they send us the new art to reposition, but unfortunately, it’s the wrong size. They take our scaling numbers (let’s say 33 percent), and they scale the original art at 33 percent at their place, and when we reposition it we have to bring it in at 100 percent.

Needless to say it’s a nightmare when they do that.

Sometimes the publisher itself will resize the artwork on their end and do the same thing.

It’s gotten to the point that when we get the high-res art we don’t update all. We do them one at a time