FM bloat (NO PDF)

[Joe Malin]

This is good to know! I have worked many times with graphics designers,
but I haven't ever had to print a book myself. At my previous position,
we published HTML and PDF, and I will probably do the same here. For web
images, I use GIF for illustrations and JPG for photos. 

Joe


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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Findon [mailto:pfindon at infopage.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 3:54 AM
To: Joe Malin
Cc: rinnie1 at yahoo.com; framers at lists.FrameUsers.com
Subject: Re: FM bloat (NO PDF)

On 5 Dec 2005, at 19:03, Joe Malin wrote:

> They would be bigger than JPG.
>
> Are you suggesting that GIF or JPG are *not* used by publishing 
> professionals?

No, I'm just saying that pro print publishers generally prefer EPS and
TIFF because of their heritage and foolproof output on PostScript output
devices. EPS files being nuggets of PostScript (format developed by
Adobe, Aldus, and Altsys); LZW decompression for TIFF files (format
developed by Aldus and, surprisingly, Microsoft) was wired into
PostScript Level 2 and later versions.

Obviously, other formats work, too, but I don't like last-minute
surprises, and try to avoid miles of film going in the trash because a
naughty file tripped up our PostScript imagesetter. I learned the hard
way 15 years ago with some home-brewed PostScript graphics...

This may not be so relevant if you output to PDF, but since Distiller is
essentially a soft PostScript RIP, I always feed it EPS and TIFF instead
of lossy formats.

Old habits die hard, I guess. And, no. I don't use TrueType fonts ;-)

Paul