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 of graphics file formats that you can sort
by raster/vector.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_file_format_summary
On Sun Apr 8 21:43:58 2012, 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 5:51 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
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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
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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.
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