PaintShopPro can do both bitmap and vector graphics. You are right if you enlarge your drawing done with your normal painting tools, it will be all "blocky" or pixelated. You can either redraw as Caroline suggested making a much larger image or you can do it as vector graphics. The vector drawing tools must be used for vector graphics, but you must also enlarge your canvas to a size close to what is the output at the printer, you you still will have blothchiness. The printer probably has Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw and can resize vectors in these formats. They will most likely not be using PaintShopPro. PSP's tools are not the same for vector graphics like either Adobe Illustrator or Xara X. PSP also tends to slow way down when working on pages larger than 8.5" x 11" even if you have a gig of RAM (like me). You have really a trade off because your time is money too. But the proper tools for the job will save you time. Xara X is not hard to learn and you can download it for free. It is not a painting program and you may not find it works much like PSP. Ulead's PhotoImpact has both vector and bitmap editing, but can handle really large page sizes more easily but it is not that easy to learn unless you have time to do a lot of tutorials. Printers generally want an image to be a .tiff which all of these programs can do. PhotoImpact is also available for download for a free trial.
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Sally M. Bode
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