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I am an amateur and created a newspaper advertisment for a friend. In the ad I place a color image of a charcoal drawing on paper (i.e. primarily shades of grey). The image and final pdf is RGB color not greyscale. The image is a 5M pixel photo converted to 300 dpi jpeg in Photoshop. I ahve not applied any half toning to the photo. The printer told me a 300 dpi image is good and even somewhat overkill. So I built this ad in Illustrator. Imported it into InDesign and created the pdf from Indesign to ship off to the printer.
I went this cumbersome route because I am new to the CS and somehow just inserting the jpg or tiff files into Illustrator blows the file size up. I place a 500k jpg file into a 100K AI file and all of a sudden my AI file is 7MB and the pdf from AI is about the same size. I found if I then took the AI file and placed it in InDesign then went to pdf it would be in the 200K range. But that is a different story/question I don’t have time for right now.
I just got a vm from the printer that said the image is printing too dark and I have to lighten it.
I haven’t a clue what to do and I have to have the fix in tomorrow. Is this a half-tone thing. Do you even do half-tones in desktop publishing?
I am sure it is a simple thing that you pros know and I am just not aware of. The problem is that I can not experiment I have 1 shot to get this reasonably right. Can anyone help, please?
I don’t know whether I messed this up in InDesign, AI or PHotoshop so I am putting this question in all 3 forums.
Tom
I went this cumbersome route because I am new to the CS and somehow just inserting the jpg or tiff files into Illustrator blows the file size up. I place a 500k jpg file into a 100K AI file and all of a sudden my AI file is 7MB and the pdf from AI is about the same size. I found if I then took the AI file and placed it in InDesign then went to pdf it would be in the 200K range. But that is a different story/question I don’t have time for right now.
I just got a vm from the printer that said the image is printing too dark and I have to lighten it.
I haven’t a clue what to do and I have to have the fix in tomorrow. Is this a half-tone thing. Do you even do half-tones in desktop publishing?
I am sure it is a simple thing that you pros know and I am just not aware of. The problem is that I can not experiment I have 1 shot to get this reasonably right. Can anyone help, please?
I don’t know whether I messed this up in InDesign, AI or PHotoshop so I am putting this question in all 3 forums.
Tom
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