Well, I've been having problems using the built-in PDF engine in OS X--a whole slew of them, actually. Sometimes it crashes Finale altogether (lost quite a bit of work that way, once), and I consistently have problems getting all the fonts packaged into the PDF.
Also, there are so few options under one's control when using the built-in Mac PDF engine. It may be just me, but I like having at least a bit of control over my resulting PDF. --Brennon On 6/14/06 2:52 PM, "Christopher Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not getting part of this discussion. > > Aren't PDFs created from Finale files (not scans) just mathematical > equations describing the lines and curves? So they will retain the > exact same resolution no matter what? So any discussions of DPI are not > germane to the topic, as they have no effect on the output, which will > be at the maximum resolution of the printer no matter what? > > Once this was explained to me, I had no qualms about using the Mac's > built-in PDF engine. Is there a reason why Brennon Bortz (on a Mac) > wouldn't use the built-in PDF engine to make his PDFs? > > Christopher > > > > On Jun 14, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- B. Christopher Bortz Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student in Music Composition and Musicology University of California, Riverside [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
