What about results if the photos are B&W? That's what we currently have and I can't see the value of printing out the club's roster with colored photos of members. I look bad enough in B&W.
Anne On Sep 2, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > Harry, > > That probably works okay if you're submitting docs that are all or mostly > words or black-and-white images. If you're using color photos it might not > work as well. For one thing, most printers will want the photos to be at > least 300 ppi and in CMYK mode rather than the standard RGB that digital > cameras output. Photoshop can convert them to CMYK, so that's one option (if > you have Photoshop), although I'm not sure how well Word or other > word-processing programs will handle those hi-res CMYK images when it comes > to outputting the PDFs. > > The most important issue is in the conversion of the file from whatever > format it was created in to PDF format. InDesign, Quark and other dedicated > design programs have built-in features that let you fine-tune that conversion > for different types of printing. I suspect that most printers know how to > work with PDFs that don't meet their optimum specs, so you'll probably get > decent output in most situations, but if you really need high quality > reproduction you're pretty much limited to InDesign, QuarkXpress, Illustrator > and/or Photoshop, with Acrobat Pro (not Reader) handling the PDF output. > > Unfortunately, none of the above are the "inexpensive desktop publishing > program" that Anne is looking for. I suspect there is one out there someone, > but I don't know what it is. > > Dan _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
