On 24 Mar 2005 at 20:42, d. collins wrote: > A-NO-NE Music �crit: > > >Along this thread, I have been wondering. > >I do fair amount of CD cover design and magazine add design, and no > >print shop has asked for anything but TIFF last couple years. I > >understand if publisher wants EPS file of Finale, but I am somewhat > >puzzling why graphic can't be TIFF. Or is it something how Finale > >handles them? I always create graphic within Finale. It is mainly > >because that had been the way it was before Finale gave graphic > >import/export feature and I am used to that way. > > First of all, as soon as you try to scale TIFF files, they look > terrible. . .
That all depends on what you're scaling in and how much scaling you do. Microsoft Word is surprisingly good with scaling TIFFs -- I've used it to produce music tests for years and the only thing that is a problem is when you try to scale so small that the staff lines start to disappear. Word is actual not linear in its scaling -- thin lines in the original are scaled down at a slower rate than thicker lines, so you can actually still do quite a bit of scaling of music TIFFs with Word and still have a usable result. > . . . At the DTP stage, the result is disastrous. And then, even > if you don't do any scaling, look at a PDF with a TIFF file and you'll > see the very poor rendering, with jagged lines instead of curves. I've > never had a publisher (i.e. a professional layout or graphic designer) > accept anything but EPS (or PDF, which is basically the same quality). But if you know the exact output resolution and do no scaling of the TIFF, the TIFF could be indistinguishable from the EPS printed on the same device at the same resolution. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
