Peter Castine wrote:
>>Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 07:11:08 -0400
>>From: "David H. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>Export the systems you want to place on the page as two graphics files
>>(I always use tiff rather than eps as they are more versatile),
>>
>
> Versatile?
>
> Personally, I don't know what anyone sees in TIFF. They're fat, they do
> *not* scale well, they are always at the wrong resolution for the printer
> at hand, you can't tweak them in Illustrator or Freehand, and they're the
> second fastest way to generate stack overflow on a low-to-mid-end PS
> printer. Possibly acceptable for raster images, but really rotten for
> vector graphics (which is what you're looking at with Finale).
>
> Even for raster images, a high-quality JPEG is slimmer for photographic
> stuff, and PNG-24 or PNG-8 will do you better for flat-color images.
>
> Your mileage may vary.-)
>
By versatile, I meant that they can print on ANY printer, not just PS
printers. EPS files have to print on PS printers, and many people in
the world don't have them. Most personal laser printers and most inkjet
printers don't come with PS, so creating files with EPS is a waste of
time to share with people like those. And since many of us aren't
concerned with PS printers, we don't have to worry about stack overflow.
Not many of us use illustrator or freehand, so we aren't limited by
their inabilities to tweak tiff files. Word can handle them,
WordPerfect can handle them, Finale can handle them.
JPEG would be a great alternative, but I wasn't aware that Finale had
included the ability to export JPEGs.
So, yes, my mileage definitely varies from yours.
--
David H. Bailey
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