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I've been using GoodNotes, the note taking app on iPad, for a few months now. It's been my favourite app for use when studying, planning art and business projects, and for use as a personal diary. I've even been producing products like digital journal covers for this app, and selling them on Etsy. Which is what brings up the issue I want to discuss today - the impact of image scaling in GoodNotes. So, one of the products I've been developing is digital elastic bands. You know how lots of traditional notebooks like Moleskine and Leuchtturm1918 have an elastic band closure? I wanted to make separated versions of these as downloadable PNGs so taht users could place them on whatever digital journal covers or pages they wanted. A key part of this design is the scale. I wanted the elastic band to be the exact height of the cover. I made the cover myself with a height of 2732 pixels, in Photoshop, so I thought simply having that same height would be enough. Same number of pixels per inch and everything. But then, when importing the image, this is the result:
Scaling When Internal Copying and PastingInteresting scaling can also be seen when copying and pasting photos between pages. View the following example. Image 1 is a photo of Dean Martin. Don't ask why this was on my iPad, it's a long story. Dimensions are 443 x 332 pixels. Image 2 is that picture of Dean, imported to a GoodNotes document page on a template of dot grid style, which was obtained from https://github.com/jrblevin/dot-grid-paper/tree/master/pdf. This PDF has the dimensions 2550 x 3300 pixels, AKA 8.5 x 11 inches. Image 3 is the same photo copied from the dot grid page, and pasted onto a new page which was made using a template based on a JPEG I made in Procreate. The dimensions of that JPEG are 1536 x 2048 px. I didn't do any scaling, and yet the image comes out larger on the 2nd, smaller, page. This means the imported photo must be staying the same dimensions wherever it goes, and it just looks smaller on larger pixel dimension pages. Random Fun Fact of the Day: If you are using the Photos app on your iPad, and choose to send a screenshot of your iPad screen to your OneDrive, when you attempt to open the image in Photoshop on your laptop it won't let you! You'll get an error message. This is because the image is a PNG, but this form of exporting makes it into a JPG, which confuses the application. So you'll need to manually change the image extension to PNG before you'll be able to open it in Photoshop. Also, IrfanView, a free small photo editor, will automatically detect and correct this error if you open the faulty file using that program. The implication of this scaling effect means that no image will ever paste perfectly sized to every buyer's GoodNotes notebook, as everyone uses different templates of different sizes. Manual scaling is absolutely necessary.
I think it would be very helpful if GoodNotes provided a feature to scale images more precisely, by percentages of the screen and by pixel amounts. This level of control would allow everyone to enjoy purchasable digital graphics on equal footing, knowing it is being seen at the right scale relative to the screen, which when working solely within the app, I think is more important that document dimensions. What are your thoughts on scaling in GoodNotes? Am I making a big deal out of small potatoes? Maybe you've found an amazing way to perfectly scale images? Let us know in the comments. Until next time, xx Jess
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Liz
28/10/2020 06:10:52 am
I have this same issue! Did you ever solve this issue Jess? Wondering how I can scale my images for stickers now!
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