Way to increase DPI setting in aperture like iPhoto?

Hi
There was a way in iPhoto to change the plist file to have it generate a higher res book prior to uploading to Apple - depending on whom you spoke with, this made a minor or major difference. Is anyone aware of something like this for Aperture?

It was only iPhoto 5 that had the plist hack change, iPhoto 6 produces 300dpi books as standard, as does Aperture - there is no need to increase the dpi as you can't increase the printing size through the print services anyway.

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Can I interpolate my original NEF raw image after conversion by Aperture to a much larger image for print using something similar to what Photoshop does with it's bicubic smoother or as is done in genuine fractals or must I go out of Aperture and back if I want to print with Aperture. I am hoping you will tell me that Aperture is or will be capable of interpolating an image to a larger one with more than just the pixels supplied by the camera. I do not belive that these are not enough by themselves to print a quality image in a much larger size.
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I could be mistaken, but I don't believe you are correct.
You need Previews enabled to drag images OUT of AP.
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- 8 x 10 inches @ 300 ppi
- 33.333 x 41.667 inches @ 72ppi
- 4 x 5 inches @ 600ppi
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- 2400 x 3000 inches @ 1ppi
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Many of my clients have come to expect me to ftp
their images cropped, sized and sharpened for final
reproduction. They say they get much better results
when I handle all of that. I'm billing by the hour
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center, and I find that when left to the printer to
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a feature that does not seem at all unreasonable.
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constantly to do workarounds for such commonly
expected capabilities. But it is, like so many
other "we know best" features, the Aperture way.
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I completely understand your point and I really do believe that it would be very simple to add a function like this to both Aperture and Lightroom. It's not like such a common setting is a complete mystery to software developers or anyone associated with the commercial arts industry. So, in light of the fact that Adobe, the king of the commercial art software industry leaves a simple common function such as this out of their application also, one has to ask, why?
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