I am submitting that attached file as an experiment. The original illustration was 41"x 29.5". I exported it at 20dpi to get it below 1000 pixels wide with a 80% quality level. If anyone has trouble reading the text let me know [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
By the way I used XaraX to do the basic layout, but the illustration were scanned from old tech manuals. Most of the work was in cleaning up the scanned images, and most of that was done using Photo Brush. The illustrations were then imported given a stain glass transparence and placed on top of the rectangles that were given an cream to white linear fill so they would look old.
Any way, depending on feedback I thought I might try different dpi and quality levels to come up with an approach that would give a readable result.
John D
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