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Craig
Mar 25, 2005
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Hi

I have been a web designer for the last 2 years out of college and now I have a project that needs me to do printing, on paper.

When I print my 72 dpi images, with the text-aliased text, it prints not very clear.

Can someone please tell me what I can do? Is there a guide for web designers to move to print design?

Thanks!!
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Xalinai
Mar 25, 2005
Craig wrote:

Hi

I have been a web designer for the last 2 years out of college and now I have a project that needs me to do printing, on paper.
When I print my 72 dpi images, with the text-aliased text, it prints not very clear.

Can someone please tell me what I can do? Is there a guide for web designers to move to print design?

Thanks!!

For starters:

Don’t use raster text for print. If your text is vector text it will be printed in the print devices highest possible resolution (usually something far beyond 300dpi) if no stupid raster image application rasterizes the text in the printing process.

Don’t assume some image is good for print if it looks good on screen – image resolution for screen sized pages (up to ISO A3) should be not less than 300dpi. And this means 300dpi of real image data, not a 72dpi image upsampled with 15/16th of the pixels resulting from interpolation.

For anything else I’d recommend to accept that you are back on field one. Maybe you can get an overview of what you missed by reading those chapters in the Photoshop manual that describe things you never needed before.

Michael
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Craig
Mar 25, 2005
Hi Michael,

Thanks for replying..

How can I make sure that my text is vector in either Photoshop, or in Indesign?

In Photoshop for instance, if I already have a raster bitmap, can I somehow convert it to vector type?

Thanks for any hints. I read up the help, but it’s only cryptic on the issue.
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RSD99
Mar 25, 2005
In print work … do NOT use PhotoShop for type. PhotoShop is an IMAGE editing and manipulation program. InDesign is a PAGE LAYOUT program. Learn what each program is designed to do, and use each program for its intended purpose.

You asked:
"… In Photoshop for instance, if I already have a raster bitmap, can I somehow
convert it to vector type? …"

You can’t.

Erase it and redo it in InDesign.

You asked:
"… Is there a guide for web designers to move to print design? …."

I don’t know of one, but there probably is. For starters, try reading the USENET newsgroup

comp.pub.prepress

You will find *many* very knowledgeable print people "over there," and while some of them are sometimes "curt," they will be very helpful to you.

"Craig" wrote in message
Hi Michael,

Thanks for replying..

How can I make sure that my text is vector in either Photoshop, or in Indesign?

In Photoshop for instance, if I already have a raster bitmap, can I
somehow
convert it to vector type?

Thanks for any hints. I read up the help, but it’s only cryptic on the issue.

R
rs
Mar 29, 2005
this article is also very informative. read the comments, too.

http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/02/11/cmyk_for_tho/in dex.php

Ralph

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