Alternatively,
The Ordnance Survey website offers a vector image of the county borders:
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/docs/outline-maps/1995-county-boundaries.ps
Your printer will prefer a vector image because it can be printed at any size large or small without resulting in a loss of quality. You will need a vector program like Inkscape (free) or Adobe Illustrator to open the image however.
They have a few more maps on their website which may be of interest to you:
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/resources/maps-and-geographic-resources/outline-maps.html
Amil Mohanan
On 7 Mar 2014, at 07:09, Matthew J Rippon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The solution to my issue was kindly provided by Gian Maria Valent of the
> University of Padova.
>
> "The quality of the image is too low for publication because its resolution
> is 198 dpi. Images for publication must be at least 300 dpi, but the web
> images are often low-resolution.
>
> With a software like photoshop you can resize the image. If you have
> photoshop, the command path you have to follow is : menu "image" then,
> "size", then in the box "resolution" write "300" without modify other
> parameters. The weight of the image will increase of course, but the
> resolution will be good for printing."
>
> I do not have Photoshop but I did have an equivalent graphics program.
> There was no need for me to find another image - I just needed to enhance
> the resolution of the image I already possessed.
>
>> Il 04/03/2014 19:45, Matthew J Rippon ha scritto:
>>> Does anyone know where I can find a good quality image of an up-to-date map
>>> of English counties.
>>>
>>> This is the kind of thing I need
>>> (http://www.themcs.org/pictures/ukcounties1995.jpg) but is apparently not
>>> of sufficient quality for publication.
>>>
>>> I've spent some time on Google Images but to no avail.
>>>
>>> I require:
>>> English counties.
>>> Black and white (ideally) but I will tolerate colour.
>>> Not too much detail. This is ideal quality
>>> (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Map_of_the_administrative_geography_of_the_British_Isles_with_postcode_areas.jpg)
>>>
>>> but contains too much information about postcodes and suchlike.
>>> Of publishable quality (large file size when downloaded).
>>>
>>> Any ideas? Thanks!
>>
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