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Hi Richard
Am 26.02.2004 um 21:10 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'd be careful here. I've had much better results with EPS images than with
TIFF images. TIFF is a raster image format, where EPS is a vector format.
When Acrobat 6 PDFs my TIFF images, they tend to be of a lower quality in
the PDF whereas my EPS remain very high quality in the PDF. For example,
our corporate logo in TIFF is horrible when PDFd, but when PDFd from EPS it
looks great. Same is true of the drawings I get from our engineering group.
If I get them in TIFF format, once PDFd they quickly break up into pixels
when zoomed in on, but if I get them in EPS format, I can zoom in as far as
Acrobat will allow with no breakup in clarity. I've seen people take
beautiful artwork from Illustrator and rasterize into TIFF, and that's a
shame. My printer is always urging me to use the EPS format unless I am
truly in a BMP realm (such as screen captures).
Now you are mixing up two things
1) EPS files are not necessarily vector files. It is also possible to have pixel based EPS files. What you are talking about are EPS files out of graphic programs. Richard was talking about EPS pictures out of e.g Photoshop. or have you ever seen a vector based photography
2) if you get drawings as tiff, files, then the export routine will raster the drawings and you are getting pixel based images.
Again - has nothing to do with TIFF or EPS during the design phase, if these file formats are used the correct way
I'm not saying to not give TIFF a try, but I'd give the resultant PDF a very close look to see if the quality of the TIFF images held up well during the PDF process.
best regards/mit freundlichen Gru:ssen
Inpetto - Peter Kleinheider PrePress Consultant & Workflow Programming St. Po:ltnerstr. 26 3130 Herzogenburg AUSTRIA ________________________________ Mobil: +43/650/2600099 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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