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 5:51 PM, Michael Traffanstead <m...@thesandbenders.com> wrote: > 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 > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 8, 2012, at 5:46 PM, David Roth <davidalanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> <m...@thesandbenders.com> 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 entire reason for using PSD. You really want to use >>> vector PSD for printing if it's possible for your workflow. >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Apr 7, 2012, at 10:10 PM, David Roth <davidalanr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I've noticed that when I've take a large file graphic image, that PDF >>>> makes a smaller file out of the whole thing. I'm wondering if there is >>>> a way to tell PDF not to do that to allow the printer to munch on the >>>> higher quality image? >>>> >>>> David Roth >>>> >>>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Rolan Yang <ro...@omnistep.com> wrote: >>>>> On 4/6/2012 4:26 PM, David Roth wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I want to be able to take the output of this on a USB flash drive (or >>>>>> DVD-ROM) to a professional printer that is using 11 x 17 color laser >>>>>> printers. I want to make this as easy as possible for the printer, so >>>>>> they just open the file for printing and go, without any sort of >>>>>> adjustments or problems. >>>>>> >>>>>> What PHP graphics libraries and techniques would be best for this? >>>>>> Any tips for creating a high quality PDF file for the printer? Or >>>>>> should this be provided in another file format? >>>>>> Any tips for working with aligning with pre-cut cards? Thanks! >>>>>> >>>>>> ... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> My vote is for an output in pdf format. _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation
