But how is it printing?
I suspect it is only the preview that is grainy.
Hi rene,
I haven’t tried printing, but when I say grainy I don’t mean low-bit grainy, I mean that it is a white B/G with the image in black dots- like a photo in the newspaper looked at really close-up.
If your preview settings are set to "standard" or "low quality", this will be the case. It defaults to this to save the memory a high resolution file eats up.
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Also make sure your Preview (on the EPS) isn’t set to TIFF (1 Bit/Pixel) when you’re saving them. The alternative is TIFF (8 bit/pixel) which will look slightly better and in color. This can be set when you save the file.
It will print correctly. An EPS is (to sum it up) a set of printer settings, which aren’t exactly made for monitors.
(EPS geeks, no need to beat me up. This is just a basic summary)
Cool, I’m now getting the preview/’get’ image, but it is giving me a white b/g which I don’t usually get, and the whole reason for doing it this way. My encoding is set at jpeg(medium quality)and I haven’t checked 1/2tone screen, transfer function, PS Colour mgmt or Interpolation.
I usually use Binary Encoding, but I’m not sure that this will solve your problem.
Did you creat the EPS in Photoshop or Illustrator? If it’s in AI, make sure you preserve tranparency and set to no bounding box. Check this in Quark also.
BTW, which version of Quirk? Use InDesign.
I created it in PS, it is a cut-out of some dice. I’m using Quark 5.0. I tried InDesign but i just can’t get my head around it- I think I have been using Quark for too long. I was sent on a course for Page Maker in Dubai and that was really bad. InDesign seems well thought out though (As you would expect).
Ingmar,
how it should work (transparency assumed):
Save JPG as TIFF
Make selection for transparent areas
Generate transparency by clipping path
(via Help in PhS)
Save as EPS (choice is "for printing")
-ASCII
-TIFF preview color 8 bit
-No PostScript color management
Test EPS by PhS (72 dpi and 144 dpi)
Place EPS in doc by DTP program
Test document by distilling for PDF
Test document by printing on PostScript Printer
This workflow excludes some possible sources of
errors and offers several test levels.
Best regards –Gernot Hoffmann
