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I’ve created a document in PageMaker 7 and in the background I’ve placed a gradient which was produced in Photoshop CS2, but when it is printed out the gradient doesn’t always looked good, it’s got vertical banding and where it fades to white it just doesn’t do it smoothly. It looks alright on the screen though. In fact, it looks better on our in-house printers than from the professional printer I recently got a draft print out from. Why is this gradient not coming out right?
Initially the PS graphic wasn’t the right width and in PM it was stretched to fit, but now I’ve made it the right width in PS and I’m in the process of testing it at the professional printers (find out tomorrow). I’m wondering, what is the best way to produce gradients? I’ve read some of the postings I’ve found from a search on this subject but haven’t solved the problem because I’m not sure my problem was directly discussed, and some of the words used were beyond me. I understood something about 16 bits, but when I changed the PS graphic to 16 bits PM wouldn’t recognise it. I guess I’m going to get replies of "Get InDesign", but that’s easier said than done. Does ID take 16 bit graphics? Is there something I need to click in order to get PM to take 16 bit graphics?
Initially the PS graphic wasn’t the right width and in PM it was stretched to fit, but now I’ve made it the right width in PS and I’m in the process of testing it at the professional printers (find out tomorrow). I’m wondering, what is the best way to produce gradients? I’ve read some of the postings I’ve found from a search on this subject but haven’t solved the problem because I’m not sure my problem was directly discussed, and some of the words used were beyond me. I understood something about 16 bits, but when I changed the PS graphic to 16 bits PM wouldn’t recognise it. I guess I’m going to get replies of "Get InDesign", but that’s easier said than done. Does ID take 16 bit graphics? Is there something I need to click in order to get PM to take 16 bit graphics?
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