American flag images (including print-ready)American flag images (including print-ready)What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility ... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
—Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965),
Speech, August 27, 1952,
"The Nature of
Patriotism."
Contents:
The following are intended for easy printing out. Anyone with the a modern version of Adobe Acrobat Reader should be able to print these directly from that application. (If you need to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, get it here.)
Note: Both PDFs will print in portrait layout as though in landscape layout. You only want the "vertical" format (view from behind) PDF if you intend on displaying your flag vertically. Other than for that purpose, you want this first one:
[ American flag PDF (229365 bytes) ]
Also available:
Note: Some earlier versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader do not seem to be displaying the PDF at all, or printing it. If this is your situation, consider obtaining a later version for free from Adobe. Please let me know versions that don't work, so I can recommend a minimum (v4.0 seems to have difficulty). Let me know any other advice that might help others.
Note: Many people are not allowing the PDFs to completely download. Please be patient the several additional seconds required for a complete transfer.
Note:
The first two PDF documents are specifically oversized, so that when
you print them the Acrobat application will automatically resize it to
fit the maximum printable area of your printer's paper. If you are
having trouble getting your flag to print properly (off center, too
large, or overhanging the paper's printable area), check that the
following settings in the Acrobat Reader Print dialog are set as
pictured at right: "Shrink oversized pages to paper size" (or "Fit to
page") and "Auto-rotate and center pages."
Each PDF is a high definition, three-color rendering. The output resolution will be 600 dpi if printed on letter size (8.5- x 11-inch) paper, but will also look great on legal size (8.5- x 14-inch) paper. Internally, the image is declared to be about 4 feet x 7.5 feet.
The following are intended for use as desktop wallpaper. Each image is antialiased (so the stars' edges will appear smooth). Select your screen resolution from among the following. After the image displays, you can use your mouse to right-click on the image and choose "Set as Wallpaper."
Note: These images are not well suited to printing. For that, go to the print-ready section instead.
The following are intended for use as Web graphics or what have you. Each image is antialiased (so the stars' edges will appear smooth). Select a dimension from among the following. After the image displays, you can use your mouse to right-click on the image and choose "Save Picture As...."
Note: These images are not well suited to printing. For that, go to the print-ready section instead.
This is the script used ultimately to generate the graphics on this page. It depends on the old versions of libgd and GD.pm that used to generate GIF images although it can be trivially adapted to give you a PNG image instead.
Some good links for American flag imagery, especially if you're looking for flags for children to color or clip art for fliers or newsletters; then other miscellaneous resources. Please recommend to me any other good yet unlisted links.
a fast-download (3089 bytes) PDF of flag for letter size paper fast download (3098 bytes) PDF for legal size paper again from Randy Gordon-Gilmore, a fast-download (2998 bytes) PDF of flag outline for kids to color
graphics including coloring for kids graphics including coloring for kids graphics including coloring for kids photos and graphics, links to more clipart photos and graphics coloring for kids graphics, other flag projects graphics including coloring for kids history and lots of other info; graphics, photos, links screensaver screensaver Palm Pilot flag software The United States Flag Page North American Vexillological Association
The ratios used in the script were obtained from this usflag.org webpage,
which says they are the official legal proportions. The 1.9:1 aspect
ratio is the standard aspect for United States flags. I could find no
governing specification for the flag's colors, so I used the colors in
a "normal-looking" American flag image I found on the Web. They look
real sweet when printed in very large format. =-)
Please let me know of any suggestions that may benefit others. (Everybody is trying to print flags this week so anything that might help them all is great.) If you are having some difficulty using this page or the files, please email me and describe it, especially if you figure out how to overcome the difficulty, so I can document it for others. Also, if none of the images on this page meets your needs, drop me an email describing what you're trying to do and I'll see if I can gin up another graphic for you posthaste.
God bless America!
Christian Campbell <dcamp@ufl.edu>
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