To increase the work area graphically, move the cursor to the lower left corner of the dashed black rectangle currently defining the work area. The problem is that if you want to increase the work area a large amount using the same approach as above, you run out of space to move the cursor ? so you have to reverse your thinking. Increasing the work area graphically is just as fast as decreasing it, but it's not as intuitive. This method allows you to adjust the aspect ratio of the resulting work area When the cursor shape changes to a double-ended diagonal arrow, click and drag the mouse down and to the left until the desired size is shown.

To make the work area smaller, move the cursor to the upper right corner of the dashed black rectangle currently defining the work area. The graphic method is faster that the numeric method, but not as exact. The numeric method is the most precise if an exact size is required ? just click on the Layout menu/Layout Properties and enter the new height and width. The work area can be resized numerically or graphically.

If you will be e-mailing the file, it's a good idea to always check the file size to be sure it's less than the limit of your e-mail service before sending it. The estimated file size in the Export Bitmap Image dialog box is very approximate ? especially for JPG and similar formats that automatically compress the file to give a small file size but maintain the quality of the image. Any e-mail attachment larger than 3MB is usually returned to the sender with the comment that it exceeded the maximum file size. The usual limit is 3 MB, but some are even smaller.

An important consideration these days in creating and e-mailing bitmap images to customers for their approval is balancing the resolution of the file with the need to have the file small enough to send by e-mail. If you change any one of these three settings, the other two will automatically be changed to the corresponding value. For example, if an image is 10 inches wide by 5 inches high and the Dots/Inch setting is 100, the Pixels Wide value will be 1000 and the Pixels High value will be 500. The Dots/Inch value is multiplied by the width and height of the image to come up with the Pixels Wide and Pixels High values ? so these setting are interdependent. When you export a design from the Wizard using one of the bitmap data formats (JPG, PCX, TIF, etc.) you can specify the Dots/Inch, Width (or Height) in pixels, and the Bits per Pixel.

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