It sounds to me like you are trying to take a chunk out of your image 
that is only something by 200px tall and then you are going to take that 
200px and stretch it to 1200 pixels tall.  That will make it so that 
every pixel is now stretched to 6 pixels tall.
There is not amount of massaging that you can do in Darktable that will 
make a good looking image out of an image that has been stretched by 
that amount.

Brian

On 02/06/2016 04:45 PM, Michael wrote:
> it is only showing a small portion of the image after it has been
> scaled. How would you show the full image? I tried "image to layer size"
> (gimp).
> As for the blurry I am going to try to fix that in darktable.
>
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 6:39 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yes, but that's going to make for a really blurry, pixelated image.
>
>     Brian Cluff
>
>     On 02/06/2016 04:34 PM, Michael wrote:
>
>         I hate it when my brain shuts down! you CROP the stupid thing
>         and then
>         scale it.
>
>         On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com
>         <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>
>         <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>              I have a 5000x3500 pixel photo. I need to cut a ?x200 pixel
>         portion
>              out and make it 1600x1200 pixels. Please, how do I do this?
>
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