I just picked up the sample copy of a book I designed. It's 7x10. My first reaction was "Ooh, a little bigger than I figured." But it's okay. I'm not going to reject it.
But it reminded me of a odd disconnect when doing electronic layouts compared to old paste-ups that started out with pencil roughs on tracing paper. Back in the day, everything was 100%, except thumbnails. If you wanted to see details, you just moved closer to the board; if you wanted to see the full spread, you pushed you chair back a bit.
I don't have that same gut sense of the actual size of layouts anymore.
I've found that with the ability to scale up layouts to 3600% or zoom out to 6%, I've lost the sense of what the actual size of the piece really is. And it's exacerbated by the fact that when I move the layout window from my 20" main monitor (1680 x 1050 pixels) to my 19" secondary monitor (1440 x 900), the on-screen size jumps just by switching monitors.
Also, selecting "100%" or "actual size" for the view setting doesn't give you a layout that is accurately 100% (because the display in the program is independent of the dot pitch of the monitor, and so it's rendered on screen at different actual dimensions)
My point: When I use the computer, my basic, tactile, almost visceral connection to the natural size of the layout is virtually nonexistent, almost completely atrophied.
Does this sound familiar?
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