If a magazine asks for images to be: advisable 300 dpi, A5, 16830, tiff or jpg format Q: What does the "A5, 16830" mean? (question is from a Ukrain magaine publisher)

That measurement would mean the "output" size, though i thought an A5 was 148x210...

not sure myself now, it's more a "euro" size so hopefully someone else can shed some light...

hope it helps

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Now that makes more sense then what I came up with. So I should set the size in the 'Document Size' field and not the 'Image Size' fields?? When done my way it came out looking rather tiny so surely I'm wrong... I wrote back and asked but it must be night time over there as she hasn't responded yet.

The size of A5 is 148x210, but they seem to want a bleed of 10 mm all around (maybe the cutting machines in Ukraine aren't very precise?) So you would need the 168x230 as total image size (with nothing important near 10 to 20 mm of the edge of the image) at 300 dpi, I guess.

I'm confused...she wrote back this morning as said my first photo (6meg) was good quality but she meant "168x230 pixels" and something about their computer having "bad codeing" that caused the confusion. So now I am assuming that she means Image Size of 168x230....well that makes the 10+meg photo only 128K, good because my ISP wont let me e-mail over 10meg (so I found out after 2 hours of trying to upload the second one) Guess I'll just wait for a response.

I don't think it will work out. Such a small photo will result in a print size of around 0.5x0.75 inch. Or is the magazine published for stamp collectors? I am only kidding of course. But I think the 20 (i think millimeters) difference with the actual size of an A5 in centimeters is not just coincidentally. She might be referring to the difference in inches and millimeters or something. When you end up needing to send a 10Mb+ size file, I can recommend the free site www.yousendit.com where you can upload a file (max 1 Gb) and it sends an email to whoever you want, who can download it from then. So you do not have to deal with the maximum email servers have to set. Good luck!

Thanks Hoofdcommissaris, even mail2web only allows a 10meg attachment. Darn thing is that I am still on dial-up so it really hurts to spend all that upload time only to find out they refuse to let it go through.... Bookmarking that one!

A5 + 10mm bleed =168 x 230mm @ 300 DPI = 1984 pixels x 2717 pixels. I think that a 10 mm bleed around the outside is more than necessary. Pehaps they find it hard to decide where to crop an image, perhaps the magazine title will conflict with the image - that extra 10mm of image can be moved about in quark or InDesign in it's picture box. to suit. 168x230 pixels printed to 168x230 mm is not 300 dpi. it's about 25.4 dpi I think (?)

good info guys! @Hoof, thanks for the link! i'll use it myself for those that i don't want to give FTP access to... :) scott