I'm having trouble resizing Jolson to 5.75" wide and .50" high. I start with a new scan of the original and first do a Custom/Fine Rotation to 359.00 degrees. I then select Resize and tick "inches" in the Set new size box. The original size is 8.71 wide x 11.82 high (1307 x 1773 pixels). When I change the width to 5.75" the height changes to 8.30.
The width of the original Jolson image is fine at 5.75. The height needs to be no taller than .50 (preferably .45). I think the problem is tha IrfanView is "seeing" the full 8.5 x 11" scan tray size and I don't know how to tell it that I only want to resize the Jolson part of that image. I need to know how DanC resized his image.
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