> 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?
Yes, that is correct. There is however, some increase in pdf file size with increasing resolution. This is because the file must include, in addition to the instructions for drawing the characters, information about where to place them. Increased resolution adds to the precision of these placement numbers and takes more significant digits. > > 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. I do not think that is at all correct for pdf and ps files. Those numbers apply to uncompressed bit maps (like tif). Richard Yates _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
