Also consider whether your audience will be viewing the PDF on a Windows, Mac, Linux, or UNIX machine, because the zoom level to match monitor pixels will vary based on the system DPI setting (and possibly the PDF viewer).
Since we couldn't provide a consistently optimal viewing experience for users across platforms, we decided to use 150 DPI because that provides good print output (as a factor of most printer DPI capabilities). Shane Taylor On Mar 22, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Joseph Lorenzini wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to get people's opinion on what they think is the best choice for > DPI. Right now I import images into FrameMaker at a DPI of 144. This means > that the PDF must be zoomed to 150% if the image pixels are to match the > monitor pixels (i.e. it would be like zooming it to 100%). However, I set > the default zoom in the PDFs to 125% because I thought that 150% was just too > big and overwhelming in a PDF. This means that the images look degraded. I'd > like to improve this. > > As I see it, I have two options. > > (1) In FrameMaker, I could change each image's DPI to 120. This means that > the image would NOT look degraded in a PDF at a zoom level of 125%. The > drawbacks are two fold: 1) I have an enormous amount of documentation and it > would take a considerable amount of time changing the DPIs for each image > though I suspect there may be a plugin out there that could automate this > process for each book. 2) Images would be noticeably bigger and take up more > space in the documentation. > > (2) I could set the default zoom in the PDFs to 150%. The upside to this is > that its a very trivial change. The downside is that the PDFs would be > enormous. On a monitor resolution of 1200x1600 it looks big but ok, whereas > on 1024x768 I find it to be too large to be readable. Admittedly, I am > assuming that most users in a corporate environment would have monitors with > a maximum resolution of 1200x1600 but I don't know for sure. Plus, not > everyone likes a res that high. > > So what say you all? Which option do you favor and why? And of course, if > there's another option I haven't thought please let me know. > > Thanks, > Joe > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as sh...@taylortext.com. > > Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/shane%40taylortext.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
