RE: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-27 Thread Mats Broberg
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Gushee > Well, yes. Many printers here do prefer PDF. However, there's > a small problem in some cases--I know this is true for > Kinko's, and was wondering if it's true for regular printers, > too: they think that PDF mea

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-27 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brooks Moses wrote: At 11:15 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Bill McClain wrote: - Also, I don't know whether it is possible to downsample images in PDF's that you generate from ConTeXt. If it is, avoid it. That raises an important question: i

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-27 Thread Bill McClain
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:15:09 -0600 Matt Gushee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Different shops might have different requirements, but Bookmobile > > simply requires an exact image of the book, page size defined to be > > the paper size. Easy. > > You're referring to just the interior, right? I wo

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-27 Thread Siep Kroonenberg
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:33:03PM -0700, Brooks Moses wrote: > At 11:15 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Bill McClain wrote: > > >> The printer > >> expects CMYK images (not RGB!) where the resolution is approx. 2 times > >> the screen count in the final print

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-27 Thread Tobias Hilbricht
Am Di, den 27.07.2004 schrieb Matt Gushee um 08:15: > they think that PDF > means "Adobe PDF"--i.e. they believe that Adobe software is *the* way to > produce PDF, and are mostly unaware that there is such a thing as a PDF > standard. Now, I don't fully understand the issue, but apparently Adobe >

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-26 Thread Brooks Moses
At 11:15 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Bill McClain wrote: > - Also, I don't know whether it is possible to downsample images in > PDF's that you generate from ConTeXt. If it is, avoid it. That raises an important question: if downsampling is done, is it obvious

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-26 Thread Matt Gushee
Thanks for all the responses. I got some very useful information here. I do have a couple of quick follow-up questions. On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Bill McClain wrote: > > Different shops might have different requirements, but Bookmobile simply > requires an exact image of the book