So this morning when I decided to face my poster fears I came to realise that the positives which were printed out for me by the lady at Pellafort were scaled down by few mm, therefore making the poster once folded down, smaller that the desired A5 format. I completely didn't notice this at the time and feel so stupid for not noticing it - but the damage is done now.
My maths is completely horrendous so the thought of having to work out how much it had been scaled down by and then having to work out how to add a border to make it A2 to then get an A5 format once folded completely baffled me - so I enlisted my very helpful Dad who helped me work it out (when I say help - I mean did it all for me while I watched):
The reasoning for not just living with the scaled down version was that it looked awkward when placed on top of the book which is how it will be packaged. It is all sorted now and nicely folded down to a very accurate A5 and looks much better with the book. To be perfectly honest I'm not a huge fan of the poster, and the last min redesign of it at the screen printing place has left it not quite as I had hoped. I could have got it printed digitally after a redesign but I feel that a digital print in amongst the rest of the print processes would have been ill fitting. At the end of the day it is displaying another print process and that's the whole idea of the product.
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