Firstly, as I am no on CC, I assume that I am always at the latest version now (?). Step 1: In Photoshop, as you can see, the images is 26.997 X 28.44 at 300 dpi. This is important to me because it is 1" = 200' as Scanned and drawn. Step 2: In Illustrator, I go to place image. Step 3: As you can see it comes in at 72ppi as indicated in the upper left and is grossly out of scale - its like 100+ inches(!). I guess thats ok for web images, but not for print. If I go to plot this out as scanned and updated it would be 72 dpi. So, I break out my calculator and scale the image to 72/300, 24%. My question (and speaking to what I think is at the heart of this thread) is why do I need to break out my calculator to do this - sometimes I have several images - sometimes I need to scale to different media - so this extra step seems unfortunate for anyone who uses illustrator for print, versus web/screen resolution. Also, I can assure you that after using Illustrator for almost 20 years that all leading up to and including CS6 imported at the correct dpi. Thanks all! Hope to see this one answered for other users.
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