On 25 Mar 2005 at 8:32, d. collins wrote: > With TIFF, I'd have to worry about the > printer's resolution and scaling, and not have any way of testing > anything. I have scores here published by major publishers, and I can > see in the introductions, for instance, that musical examples have > been inserted as bitmaps. Perhaps they looked good at some time, but > the final result is a disaster.
Well, if the TIFFs are prepared at a resolution that doesn't account for final output resolution, yes, they are going to look bad. And, yes, EPS is superior since it's scalable. But for my own work, where I am in control of the whole process and am inserting graphics into programs that scale TIFFs extremely well, I have never had a need for EPS (even though I do have a PostScript printer). As my printer is currently out of commission, I can't say what I'd do if I needed to insert a graphic into a Finale file (it's never been an issue for me). The TIFF may be satisfactory if I did certain things: 1. made sure the TIFF was created at output printer resolution. 2. made sure the printing process did not reduction of the page. 3. made certain that my page layout did nothing to alter the size of the graphic (such as a page reduction). In these instances, I expect I could get something perfectly acceptable. Why are you raising the issue of TIFFs if you find them so unsatisfactory? If they don't work for you, they don't work, so why worry about them? -- 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
