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In Quark under the item menu What is the clipping path set to? It should be on Item other wise Quark will make the picture jagged. Kate Hellmann > ---------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@MOORECORP on behalf of Lennart T�rnquist <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 1:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PDF] Random Jaggies... > > > Hi All... > > I'm stucked... > ... and confused... > > Platform: Mac OS 9.2.2 > Hardware: Macintosh G3 266 MHz Server (Former... : Now Distilling is > It's only purpose, as I want to free up my own G4 workstation...) > Distiller: Acrobat Distiller 5 > Allocated memory: 384 MB > > Original Document: QuarkXPress 4.11 > Size: A4, 64 pages > Master Spread: Containing 1 black over all - background and 44 small > (Wheel Rims) - images (1"x1")TIFF, 300 dpi, CMYK, compressed and saved > from Photoshop 7 > and table text. > > Output settings: Not from within Quark's export, but printing to a PS > file for Print, using Adobe PS 8.7.3 and Distiller PPD, at 2400 > dpi/175lpi, dropped into a hot folder for print... > Compression / JobOptions setting: ZIP (main reason for getting as > lossless PDF as possible > Limit: Compress images above 450 dpi. > > The Distiller has worked fine in all previous projects. > > PROBLEM: > Distilling the PS file randomly jaggies these small images... > The resolution is retained at 300 dpi, no resampling / no change... > > At an output of 8 pages, the file comes out OK from a PS file at around > 180 MB. > > When I print and distill the whole PSfile, 64 pages, 1.2 GB PS file, I > get jaggies around the rims, as they would have been JPG compressed > > Outputting 8 pages again with the same (checked...) ZIP compression, it > looks like sh-t again.... Huh??? > > Running PitStop and analyzing the file, I do notice that they're JPG > compressed, - although - Hot folder joboption is set to ZIP... Huh? > again...! > > > Outputting 8 pages again with the same (checked...) ZIP compression, it > looks like OK again.... Huh??? again and again...! > > Q: Is it possible that Distiller randomly "forget"s it's own folder > joboptions sometimes..? > Q: These compressed TIFF's from Photohop... I assume they are unpacked > and then re-compressed again in Distiller... Can this be a reason...? > Q: Can it be a hardware problem comparing with the file size at 1.2 GB > versus too less memory..? > Q: Too many items on the pages/Spread in combination with too much text? > > Beats me... > Any ideas, anyone out there...? > > Regards // Lennart > > > -- > G2 Grafiska AB <http://www.g2grafiska.se> > > > L e n n a r t T � r n q u i s t > > Network & PrePress Manager > > G2 Grafiska AB > Kroksl�tts Torg 4 > SE 431 37 M�LNDAL, SWEDEN > > Phone: Direct +46 31 27 50 45 > Op: +46 31 277 100 > Fax: +46 31 277 118 > www.g2grafiska.se > > -- > "No matter how much you know today, you'll have to know more tomorrow..." > --- > > > > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
