Now I know that's not so........
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On 9/2/12 1:24 PM, "Anne Cartwright" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 
> 
> 
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