On Wednesday 09 March 2005 17:44, Anne Wilson wrote: > Interesting. �I don't have to deal with printers myself, so I've no > experience of that, but everything I've read over the last year or so has > been to the effect that most printers will happily accept pdfs. �I suspect, > though, that you have to negotiate a lot of details to make sure that it's > what they want. > > Anne
Well the point is most printers use Macs and Adobe software. eps and .ai( adobe illustrator) are used for vector graphics whereas .pdf is bitmapped again and thus rejected. Scribus uses vectors as does Inkscape and I've allready bullied (read: drove 'm mad) my habitual printers into accepting .eps by default and slowly getting used to .svg files. If Adobe Illustrator would run on linux I'd find a way to get somebody else (preferably) to buy it for me....though admittedly I love the way inkscape is getting along. BTW check out "frontline" for converting/tracing bitmaps to vectors (.svg or .ai or whatever) it works OK as long as the bitmap isn't too difficult/intricate. Another problem is the colours I have to send an extra mail as to exactly what colours should be used.....that is if they're very specific. -- Good luck, HarM
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