Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
Music engravings have a lot of curves and shapes that have curved
edges. Since most laser jet printers are 1200 DPI.
I assumed when I created a PDF, I should opt for the highest possible
quality setting (printer's quality); and picked 1200 DPI.
But the publisher I sent the file to mentioned that the sizes were
pretty huge.
I'll break the answer into two parts. If I'm saving graphics images, I
save the image in the highest resolution available to me. The reason
for this is that if the image needs to be a different resolution for
some reason, it is trivial to import the image into a graphics program,
and reduce the resolution, but I find the results of importing an image
and attempting to increase the resolution unsatisfactory. .
Part two: when called upon to submit work, I always ask for details
about how the work should be submitted--format, and if a graphics image,
what resolution. I have one client for whom I do work who specifically
does _not_ want ~.pdf files, preferring ~.tif files, or a ~.ps printer
file.
Will the quality be the same at 300 DPI versus 1200?
No. the quality of a 300 DPI image will have less detail than a 1200
dpi image. however, a if the 300 dpi image is one megabyte, a 1200 dpi
image will be sixteen megabytes. The common intermediate value, 600
dpi, will be four megabytes.
Am I creating Godzilla PDFs when a Bambi one will suffice? :-)
The publisher is most likely to have the answer to this question.
ns
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