How to Choose the Right Image File Format for Print

[Carol J. Elkins]

At 11:00 AM 3/21/2015, you wrote:
>I assume you are referring to commercial 
>printing, where either CMYK process colors or similar spot colors are used.Â

Well, no, actually. I do very little color work 
and am woefully ignorant on all things color. So 
far, the color photos and occasional color 
artwork that my clients give me print just fine 
commercially and output just fine to PDF without 
my knowing anything about color. My clients mainly use line drawings.

I've had really good luck importing the 
Illustrator vector artwork directly by reference 
into my FM docs. For the past 20 years, I've 
converted all my artwork to .eps first, but now 
that Framemaker gets along with Illustrator, I 
can skip that entire step. And it is very 
convenient being able to double-click the 
imported file to open it, revise it in Illustrator, and save it right back out.

Carol