I think I should forward this message to my co-worker. She has been getting ..pdfs from a fellow and they have been all messed up and we can’t figure out why. He makes up advert for us and just got a new Mac and new software…we have been guessing that he has his Acrobat set wrong, but we are not Mac people.
I can’t be more specific as she has been dealing with it. I am not sure where the problem lies with your scenario. I do my graphics in PS at 300 ppi and bring them into InDesign to add the type. Then I make the PDF at 300 ppi (1200 for line art…my co-worker likes 200 and 800 but that isn’t the way I was taught and though we print on newsprint I also send work to houses that print on glossy so I keep my settings on the higher numbers). I compress with ZIP and we have no problems (I wouldn’t even consider JPG). We have no problem with my work which is then imported into Quark for layout. She just got the new Quark so the PDFs can be imported…before she changed them into EPS first.
So, where might our outside guy be messing up? The resampling or the JPG? I don’t know what software he uses…Quark I think, and he makes his PDFs directly from that.
Sometimes I get lazy and don’t convert my photos from RGB and let InDesign handle that…but we haven’t seen a problem with that…yet.
Any Guesses? …and thanks for the help.
"Hecate" wrote in message
On Wed, 19 May 2004 20:24:30 GMT, -xiray- wrote:
On Wed, 19 May 2004 01:33:28 GMT, "Gene Palmiter" wrote:
More importantly…how can it be screwed up…because if it can be…I am sure to run into it sooner or later.
It can be screwed up like this: Suppose you have a Tif file at 300 dpi, and your PDF export settings convert the file and apply compression. You might understand the PDF export functions and create perfect files, but there are those other there that do not have a clue — thus the caution.
<g> Uh-huh.
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