RE: High quality images

2007-01-31 Thread Jon Harvey
; Clara Hall Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: High quality images Jon, I just tried this on my notebook system sitting in a hotel room on a business trip. Did screen shot Alt-PrtSc and pasted the result into a new document in Photoshop 9 (=CS2). Flattened the layers and saved as RGB

High quality images

2007-01-31 Thread Jon Harvey
; Clara Hall Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: High quality images Jon, I just tried this on my notebook system sitting in a hotel room on a business trip. Did screen shot Alt-PrtSc and pasted the result into a new document in Photoshop 9 (=CS2). Flattened the layers and saved as RGB

RE: High quality images

2007-01-30 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:45 -0800 29/1/07, Matt Sullivan wrote: In my experience with large full-color CMYK images, the ZIP compression saved roughly 15% of the file size. For that smaller size, the RIP time would often increase by a factor of 4x or 5x. Scaling the image within the application (with the exception

Re: High quality images

2007-01-30 Thread T.W. Smith
To: Stuart Rogers; Clara Hall Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: High quality images -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:28 AM To: Clara Hall Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: High quality images Clara Hall wrote: Hello

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2007-01-30 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:45 -0800 29/1/07, Matt Sullivan wrote: >In my experience with large full-color CMYK images, the ZIP compression >saved roughly 15% of the file size. For that smaller size, the RIP time >would often increase by a factor of 4x or 5x. Scaling the image within the >application (with the

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2007-01-30 Thread Dov Isaacs
reats them as PDF files and internally converts the PDF to EPS. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Kenneth C. Benson > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 6:37 PM > To: 'Framers List' > Subject: Re: High quality images > > - Original Message - > From: &

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2007-01-30 Thread T.W. Smith
harvey=cambridgesoft.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+jharvey=cambridgesoft.com at lists.frameusers.com] > On Behalf Of Dov Isaacs > Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 3:01 AM > To: Stuart Rogers; Clara Hall > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: High

RE: High quality images

2007-01-29 Thread Jon Harvey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dov Isaacs Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 3:01 AM To: Stuart Rogers; Clara Hall Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: High quality images -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers Sent: Friday

RE: High quality images

2007-01-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Jon Harvey wrote: I tried this. FrameMake imports the tif as an empty graphic frame with the image file name in it. The image can be activated but only in a graphics program. Activated? It sounds like you're importing it as (or creating) an _object_ (i.e., linking with OLE) instead of

RE: High quality images

2007-01-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
Message- From: Matt Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:45 PM To: Dov Isaacs; 'Framers List' Subject: RE: High quality images Dov, one clarification/question regarding your advice for screen shots... In my commercial printing experience, I found TIFF

RE: High quality images

2007-01-29 Thread Matt Sullivan
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dov Isaacs Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 12:48 AM To: Sean; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: High quality images I must strongly disagree with ANY advice to resample screen shots at any stage of the workflow

RE: High quality images

2007-01-29 Thread Matt Sullivan
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:50 PM To: Matt Sullivan; Framers List Subject: RE: High quality images Matt, Several observations: (1) There is something drastically wrong with your RIP if it is slowing down when faced with compressed images. (2) How an image is compressed in a TIFF

RE: High quality images

2007-01-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
List' Subject: RE: High quality images (1) Actually, with multiple 100+ Mb files and poster-sized or larger output, scaling, rotation, cropping and compression take on a whole new meaning. When the size of the cache exceeds that of the RAM on the output engine, it's like running Photoshop

RE: High quality images

2007-01-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Matt Sullivan wrote: For screen captures, my clients have the best success simply pasting from SnagIt, or their application of choice. As the files would almost never be modified in a bitmap editor, but simply re-captured, the image on disk is a bit redundant. Importing by reference is

RE: High quality images

2007-01-29 Thread Matt Sullivan
Training Center www.grafixtraining.com 888 882-2819 -Original Message- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 4:15 PM To: Matt Sullivan; Framers List Subject: RE: High quality images Matt Sullivan wrote: For screen captures, my clients have

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2007-01-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
what options did you use to save the file? - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Jon Harvey [mailto:JHarvey at cambridgesoft.com] > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 10:03 AM > To: Dov Isaacs; Stuart Rogers; Clara Hall > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject

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2007-01-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Jon Harvey wrote: > I tried this. FrameMake imports the tif as an empty graphic > frame with the image file name in it. The image can be > activated but only in a graphics program. "Activated"? It sounds like you're importing it as (or creating) an _object_ (i.e., linking with OLE) instead

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2007-01-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
nal Message- > From: Matt Sullivan [mailto:matt at grafixtraining.com] > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:45 PM > To: Dov Isaacs; 'Framers List' > Subject: RE: High quality images > > Dov, one clarification/question regarding your advice for > screen shots... >

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2007-01-29 Thread Matt Sullivan
. 888/882-2819 -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+matt=grafixtraining@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+matt=grafixtraining.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Dov Isaacs Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 12:48 AM To: Sean; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: High

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2007-01-29 Thread Matt Sullivan
...@adobe.com] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:50 PM To: Matt Sullivan; Framers List Subject: RE: High quality images Matt, Several observations: (1) There is something drastically wrong with your RIP if it is slowing down when faced with compressed images. (2) How an image is compressed in a TIFF

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2007-01-29 Thread Matt Sullivan
Training Center www.grafixtraining.com 888 882-2819 -Original Message- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 4:15 PM To: Matt Sullivan; Framers List Subject: RE: High quality images Matt Sullivan wrote: > For screen captures, my clients h

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2007-01-29 Thread Kenneth C. Benson
- Original Message - From: "Matt Sullivan" > Along those lines, another client refuses to import native .ai files and > instead uses EPS because of the .5 second delay in preview. The little > things count when multipled out hundreds of times! Funny, I began

RE: High quality images

2007-01-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
-Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:28 AM To: Clara Hall Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: High quality images Clara Hall wrote: Hello everyone, We have recently adopted a procedure to yield the highest quality images

RE: High quality images

2007-01-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
prior to the RIP process violates the reliable PDF workflow principles. - Dov -Original Message- From: Sean Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 7:43 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: High quality images Checkout Screen Captures 102 here: http://www.techwr-l.com

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2007-01-28 Thread Shlomo Perets
When the PDF is displayed on-screen, zooming in/out will effectively downsample/upsample the screen capture, causing loss of quality. For an optimal display of screen captures (and when printing the PDF is not the primary intended use), a separate PDF (image viewer) may be used, with a

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2007-01-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
> -Original Message- > From: Stuart Rogers > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:28 AM > To: Clara Hall > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: High quality images > Clara Hall wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > We have recently adopted a proce

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2007-01-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
resampling prior to the RIP process violates the "reliable PDF workflow" principles. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Sean > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 7:43 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: High quality images > > Che

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2007-01-28 Thread Shlomo Perets
When the PDF is displayed on-screen, zooming in/out will effectively downsample/upsample the screen capture, causing loss of quality. For an optimal display of screen captures (and when printing the PDF is not the primary intended use), a separate PDF ("image viewer") may be used, with a

High quality images

2007-01-26 Thread Clara Hall
Hello everyone, We have recently adopted a procedure to yield the highest quality images which includes the following steps: 1. Alt-PrintScrn the image into Photoshop 2. Save the image as a Photoshop EPS. Make sure Image Interpolation is set. This sets a image dictionary key that

Re: High quality images

2007-01-26 Thread Art Campbell
I use SnagIt, a dedicated screen capture program. Although I save to .png files, direct saves to EPS and .PDF are supported; I'd pick .PDF before I'd use EPS In either case though, SnagIt saving directly to a file is a cheaper, quicker method that doesn't require manual work in Photoshop. Or

Re: High quality images

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Swallow
For screen shots, you're never going to get a higher quality output than what you capture it at. Your highest resolution will be at which you capure it; they will always have a fixed pixel dimension. You should not try to alter the number of pixels in the image, as that will add distortion.

Re: High quality images

2007-01-26 Thread Stuart Rogers
Clara Hall wrote: Hello everyone, We have recently adopted a procedure to yield the highest quality images which includes the following steps: 1. Alt-PrintScrn the image into Photoshop 2. Save the image as a Photoshop EPS. Make sure Image Interpolation is set. This sets a image

Re: High quality images

2007-01-26 Thread Sean
Checkout Screen Captures 102 here: http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/screencapgraphicshomepage.html Cheers. - Original Message From: Clara Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:32:17 AM Subject: High quality images

High quality images

2007-01-26 Thread Clara Hall
Hello everyone, We have recently adopted a procedure to yield the highest quality images which includes the following steps: 1. Alt-PrintScrn the image into Photoshop 2. Save the image as a "Photoshop EPS". Make sure "Image Interpolation" is set. This sets a image dictionary key that

High quality images

2007-01-26 Thread Art Campbell
I use SnagIt, a dedicated screen capture program. Although I save to .png files, direct saves to EPS and .PDF are supported; I'd pick .PDF before I'd use EPS In either case though, SnagIt saving directly to a file is a cheaper, quicker method that doesn't require manual work in Photoshop. Or

High quality images

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Swallow
For screen shots, you're never going to get a higher quality output than what you capture it at. Your highest resolution will be at which you capure it; they will always have a fixed pixel dimension. You should not try to alter the number of pixels in the image, as that will add distortion.

High quality images

2007-01-26 Thread Stuart Rogers
Clara Hall wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We have recently adopted a procedure to yield the highest quality images > which includes the following steps: > > 1.Alt-PrintScrn the image into Photoshop > 2.Save the image as a "Photoshop EPS". Make sure "Image > Interpolation" is set. > >

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2007-01-26 Thread Sean
: High quality images Hello everyone, We have recently adopted a procedure to yield the highest quality images which includes the following steps: 1.Alt-PrintScrn the image into Photoshop 2.Save the image as a "Photoshop EPS". Make sure "Image Interpolation" is set.