Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]James, I'll just add a little to the other answer you already have ... that there is little point to a resolution better than 72dpi for viewing on the screen. I've run into this problem. I assume you want to distribute the presentation of your work and that once it gets distributed, you no longer have control of how it is viewed. Some people will view it on the screen, some people with print it out ... requiring a higher resolution to do justice to your work. I have a project I'm working on and learned most of what I know (and that's flaky) by reading the pre-press information from a printing house. All the stuff is in Swedish so it won't help you. The bottom line is ... we usually use too high resolution when we start out. Even high quality printing doesn't require a lot of resolution (350 dpi or so for 175 screen lines ... printers jargon). Try and find a printer on the net that has some instructions for their customers. There's usually a lot of good advice in those booklets. Then you can find out what the optimum is ... and feel free to go with lower resolution, since you probably won't be running into people sending your pdf files to the printers. I'm not sure, since I find these issues pretty confusing myself, but if someone is going to print on a photo inkjet printer ... then you can use all the resolution you can get. But it depends on the size your pictures are going to be, like the original answer pointed out. 1) Size and 2) medium. Daniel Ridings >From: "James A. Gatlin" <jagatlin@attbi.com> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: [Leica] Anyone had experience with creating PDF portfolios? >Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 13:19:48 -0700 > >I recently created my first Adobe PDF presentation. I think I set the photo >resolution to high, since the final PDF file size was massive. Has anyone >here created a PDF presentaion of their work? And what dpi resolution would >you suggest the images be resized to in order to keep the best image >resolution while at the same time keeping the file size down? > >Thanks > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html