[PDF-Basics] Question to ponder over the Christmas Holiday

[Smiley-Oyen, Paul]

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Dear Subscribers; As succinctly as I can, I'll try to log all the particulars of my system and (what I believe to be at the root of) the problem. What I will leave out, are the many 'excentricities' in the interaction of Quark and OSX! Also, I am only dealing with B&W, Grayscale images!! Nothing nearly as daunting as 4-color or hexachrome separations!!!   Mac G5 (dual 2ghz, 1gb ram) OSX (10.2.7) QuarkXpress 6.0 Acrobat 6.0 standard Distiller 6.0 (5/19/03) HP LaserJet 500 GN   I am having a great deal of trouble producing a clean, full-resolution image (.tif, .eps, or .pdf) through Quark, to a PDF file!   Things I've tried (to no resolution) in this process   • Making and remaking the distiller settings at least 12-ways; • Using (what I believe to be) every iteration of combinations of printer drivers, settings & set-up's; • Resaving the image files to other formats, previews, and filetypes. • Printing the file, from the 'advanced settings' menu, as an 'image'.     What I am seeing on only the PDF, when output to my printer, is what appears to be only the 'screen preview' portion of the image file.   This has really stumped me and our in-house I.T. department. This seems to be one of those things that might be controlled by just one checkbox, hidden deeply within one of the applications I'm using. Every attempt I've made to uncover such a 'switch' has come up empty.   What I believe to be at the root of the problem It seems I got closest to the root of the problem when I most recently resaved the image file (scanned from hard-copy original) with an 8-bit .tif preview, upgrading from the 1-bit .tif preview (which has been the standard here). This rendered a barely-legible image, still very blurred and far from acceptable.   Surely there has to be someone out there that has come across this combination of factors before, or someone that can offer their wisest educated guess!   Like most of you, I'll be out of the office until the 29th, so this is is something to ponder over what I hope for each of you, will be an otherwise Very Merry Christmas!   Paul   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typographer Briggs Corporation 7300 Westown Parkway DesMoines, IA 50266-1243 800-247-2343   Confidentiality Notice: The information in this e-mail and any attachments may be legally privileged and confidential. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and permanently delete the e-mail and any attachments immediately.