On 24 Mar 2005 at 18:46, d. collins wrote:

> Even a very high resolution TIFF doesn't give professional looking
> results. Don't any other Windows user ever insert graphics?

Some questions:

- what are you inserting it *into*?

- what resolution are you exporting at?

Microsoft products (Word, especially) actually do an excellent job of 
scaling graphics (though you can't necessarily tell onscreen). Other 
programs are less successful, in my experience.

For export resolution, you want to choose at least the resolution you 
want to print at.

If you're inserting it into a Finale score, choose the exact print 
resolution for decent output. I've never actually done this, so can't 
say how it works (my printer is currently broken, so I can't test -- 
what I see onscreen looks as if it will be OK, but I can't say for 
certain). I printed my test page to PDF and it looks fairly good 
onscreen, but at 400% shows definite problems in the graphics. But 
that is to be expected when viewing scalable fonts versus a bitmap.

You'll never know for certain until you print, but I would definitely 
say you want your TIFF resolution to be the same as your output 
resolution. Now, I don't know if a page % reduction applies to 
graphics or not, but it should be easy to test.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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