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geoffrey edwards
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September 30, 2017
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CS3 Page Setup need A1 not in Paper size list User Defined?

  • September 30, 2017
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Hi  I am selecting photos for printing and I am using Print Size to check how large I may have the photos printed.  What I do is I open a photo file and then select Page Setup. For example A2. I can then go to View - Print Size and my display will show the rulers in centimeters correctly. But when I tried to select A1 that size is not available in the list under Page Setup. I have tried selecting User Defined but there is nowhere to add the dimensions and no popup to allow dimensions to be added.

I use an Epson R2400 (to print up to A3) and that does not offer an opportunity to enter the dimensions for User Defined under Page Layout.

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JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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September 30, 2017

OK you Open an image file and it opened some size in Photoshop. What size did it open. You use page setup and selected A2 did you choose that size because it the size paper you have in the printer or because it the size the image in Photoshop is?  What page setup size you you choose for my image

In My CS3 I do not se an A2 option or an A1 I do see an envelope A2 Have no idea where CS3 has this list may be built in Photoshop.

Printer settings are print driver settings. ]

In CS3 it look like you must first set the printer or CS3 will default to your system default printer.   When I used Print in photoshop and selected epson 4800 the page setup changed it tune.

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geoffrey edwardsAuthor
Inspiring
October 1, 2017

Hi JJMack  What I am doing is using Photoshop to see what my photo looks like if I were to print to A2 or A1 and larger. If I select Image and   Image Size and I alter the Document size Resolution to 99 pixels/inch the rulers will be correctly displaying centimeters.  I had set the Page Layout to A2. So selecting View - Print size I can decide whether my photo will look good in this instance printed on A2 paper. This would have to be done by a commercial print company aas my printer is A3.  What I am unable to do is select A1 or A0 as it is not an option in my Photoshop Page Setup Size list.  What I could do is select User Defined but as I am enquiring there is no place to enter what User Defined sizes I want to enter.

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geoffrey edwardsAuthor
Inspiring
October 1, 2017

You should be able to set the width to what ever you want here I changed to MM and set width to 420mm  A2 size. Photoshop set the DPI.  If you can not set the width try resetting your CS3 preferences to see if that fixes that problem.


When I tried to alter the dimensions I lost one setting. When the Resample option is not checked the preserve aspect ratio is unavailable. 

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