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Originally Posted by Nate the great
... 8.5 by 11, scanned at 300dpi
OO insists the images are (about) 25" by 33".
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OO thinks the images are 90 dpi, and is calculating the page size from that. The scanner may not have attached that info to the images--so OO finds a ~2500x3300 pixel image, divides it by default resolution, and comes up with ~27x36. If they're scanned a bit smaller than letter size, that'd come down to 25x33 or so.
I've had this problem with digital photos, where the image doesn't contain a resolution, just a pixel count. For myself, I run a batch process in Photoshop that resizes the jpgs to 300 dpi. I suspect PSP would have a similar function somewhere.
If you mostly care about making an ebook, leaving them at 90 dpi and resizing to letter size would work fine instead. It's only if you want to print them that the 300 dpi version should matter. (Also, some/most comics could be done as 256 color, rather than 24-bit, if you've got that option.)
Acrobat Pro has an option to "reduce filesize", which will condense the images better. (And it fixes the file expansion that happens with multiple edits.) However, it does change image quality--I've never noticed it onscreen, but printouts can be very different.