2010/1/30 James Elliott <james.elli...@wn.com.au>: > I have been using OOo since version 1.0 and love it. > > Recently, I have become involved in the sign making industry where I also > use PhotoPrint6, to edit graphics and send them to our vinyl cutting or > vinyl printing machines, and we also have Corel Draw, Photoshop, and > Illustrator. In another voluntary capacity I have occasion to send > newsletters, including graphics, to a commercial offset printing firm. > > The outside printing firm prefers we send all artwork and proofs as PDFs. > We receive artwork from design studios in PDF format in our sign making > business. > > Apparently there are HI-RES PDFs and ordinary PDFs. What I want to know is > that if I create a PDF in OOo, is it good enough to send straight to our > sign-making software, or to our outside printing firm, or is it just > ordinary (low res) PDF, good enough for private use but not the same as PDFs > produced by Adobe Illustrator?
What about exporting something to PDF and then look at the result yourself? Open it with a PDF viewer and zoom it in a lot. Then compare it to a PDF that yoy know is a ”HI-RES PDF”. Which one was better? If the OpenOffice.org PDF was worse, then just increase its resolution, which you can do if you export via File → Export to PDF… rather than just clicking the Export to PDF button. I could set the resolution to 1200 dpi and lower. Of course the resolution of the final PDF won't be any better than the resolution of the pictures in it, but I guess that is very obvious for most people. > > As you can see, I am a bit of a newbie to graphic design, sign making, and > the printing industry, and I would really appreciate your help and advice. I > would like to use OOo more in our business(es) if possible. > > Many thank, James > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
