How to Choose the Right Image File Format for Print

[Fei Min Lorente]

Thanks for that article, Carol.

I've been using PDF from Visio source (sometimes Illustrator or CAD drawings), and I'm currently using PNG for screen captures. I used to use TIFF, but then something changed. I'm not sure if it was going from Windows XP to Windows 7 or changing my laptop, but the TIFF figures were all fuzzy and the PNG ones weren't (when I look at PDF and HTML). I haven't tried printing the PNG graphics; we just ship PDFs and since our customers haven't complained, maybe they're not printing them either.

Fei Min
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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:31:35 -0400
From: Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com>
To: "Carol J. Elkins" <celkins at awrittenword.com>
Cc: Frame Users <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Re: How to Choose the Right Image File Format for Print
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Where I work we use either PNGs (if we have a screenshot) or SVGs (generated from Visio). We do a *lot *of Visio diagrams.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Carol J. Elkins <celkins at awrittenword.com>
wrote:

> Here is a really good article (I think) about the various graphic file 
> formats and when to use and not use them.
> http://www.creativepro.com/article/how-to-choose-the-
> right-image-file-format-for-print
> I've read dozens of similar articles and this one stands out for its 
> clarity.
>
> This past year I've been using native Illustrator files in my 
> Framemaker documents almost exclusively and am really happy with the 
> decision. I previously had used a lot of imported PDF files as 
> graphics and although they generally did not cause any mishaps, 
> occasionally I'd have some seriously wonky problems with PDFs 
> generated from Framemaker files that had PDF files imported by 
> reference. Just curious as to whether others are using native 
> Illustrator or Photoshop files instead of traditional .tif, eps, or (gasp) jpg formats.
>
> Carol
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:10:30 -0700
From: Ed Nodland <enodland at gmail.com>
To: "Carol J. Elkins" <celkins at awrittenword.com>
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We use PDFs created in Illustrator.  As I understand a single page illustrator and PDF file created by illustrator are identical or at least totally exchangeable.

Ed Nodland

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Carol J. Elkins <celkins at awrittenword.com>
wrote:

> Here is a really good article (I think) about the various graphic file 
> formats and when to use and not use them.
> http://www.creativepro.com/article/how-to-choose-the-
> right-image-file-format-for-print
> I've read dozens of similar articles and this one stands out for its 
> clarity.
>
> This past year I've been using native Illustrator files in my 
> Framemaker documents almost exclusively and am really happy with the 
> decision. I previously had used a lot of imported PDF files as 
> graphics and although they generally did not cause any mishaps, 
> occasionally I'd have some seriously wonky problems with PDFs 
> generated from Framemaker files that had PDF files imported by 
> reference. Just curious as to whether others are using native 
> Illustrator or Photoshop files instead of traditional .tif, eps, or (gasp) jpg formats.
>
> Carol
>
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