Scaling Issue When Importing Images

[Sngreene (Scott Greene)]

Hi -

Is there a best practice for importing images to maintain scale? I am trying to do a print and cut and running into scaling discrepancies when importing the image into Lightburn. I’ve created an image contained with-in a 7.5in x 10.5in square and when I import the image into Lightburn I have to adjust the square to 7.34in x 10.3in to get it to scale properly. I’ve saved the image using different file formats such as a jpeg, pdf, and png.

Thanks for your help!

[berainlb (PY)]

How are you generating the image?

PNG files won’t necessarily have DPI information so scale likely needs to be interpreted. JPEG and PDF should scale accordingly.

I just tested import of a PNG and JPEG created on my system intended to be 100 mm and it imported to scale.

Can you test these and see if they import at 100 mm?

JPEG:

PNG:

[Sngreene (Scott Greene)]

Thank you for the quick reply and additional questions. I believe I found what was happening based off your question. I was creating the image in MS Publisher and it is somehow being resized when saved as a JPEG. I’ll play around with the settings when saving as a JPEG image and I think that should do the trick. Thanks again!

[berainlb (PY)]

Great. Sounds like you have your lead.