Thanks for helping me make sense out of all this! Just to make sure I
have this right...
So to get the highest possible printing quality, return to the graphic
designer and ask for the template image generated as a vector graphic?
What file format should that be in ready for programming image over
OK. Are their PHP library routines to support a PSD file format? Thanks!
David Roth
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Michael Traffanstead
wrote:
> And when your creating a PDF you can specify the resolution of
> included images (which are typically embedded as a JPEG) but this
> defeats the enti
Don't know why I typed psd, that's the photoshop file format. You want PDF.
Ghostscript is still the best open source utility for manipulating
Postscript and PDF files. The gswrapper project on sourceforge has a
php wrapper.
Mike
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On Apr 8, 2012, at 5:46 PM, David Roth wrote
OK, thanks for clarifying that. I'll check out your suggestions.
What should the graphic designer provide the vector graphic image
template in for development then? They usually work I believe in
something like PhotoShop or Quark. I'm guessing, TIFF? Thanks!
David Roth
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 5:5
Postscript, Adobe Illustrator (.ai), PDF or SVG. Ghoscript will work
with all of them. TIFF supposedly supports vector but I've never
really seen it used that way, it's only real distinction is that it's
lossless raster which is why photographers tend to use it.
Wikipedia has a handy table o
