Saving images in high resolution

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Katie_Lewek
Dec 27, 2006
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I am putting graphics into this book and my printer sent me this program that allows me to scan the PDF file at the end to see if there are any low resolution images, any fonts are not being embedded, etc…, which basically saves a step that the printer has to do when they recieve my document. All the graphics were created in Illustrator, saved as EPS. files and then opened with Photoshop Elements 3.0 on my computer. I made the image size 300 pixels/inch, because that is how I normally do it and it works out well. I did that to all the images in the book and the program I use to scan the PDF file says that the images are all low resolution. Should I go up to 400 pixels/inch or lower or what? I am confused because this has never happened to me before.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Katie

P.S. I noticed in Image > Resize > Image Size the Resample Image was checked off to Bicubic.
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Bob Levine
Dec 27, 2006
Why did you rasterize the vector graphics in the first place?

How did you create the PDF?

Bob
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Katie_Lewek
Dec 27, 2006
Rastorize the vector graphics? What does that mean? I created the PDF by doing Print but as a print to file (Postscript). Maybe I did something differently from when I did it before. Does unchecking that "Resample Image" do anything?
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Bob Levine
Dec 27, 2006
Rastorize the vector graphics? What does that mean?

You said you created the graphics in Illustrator and then opened those in Photoshop. That’s rasterizing. You change everything from vector to raster.

There’s simply no need. And there’s also no need to print to PDF from Photoshop. Just save as PDF.

But that’s still unnecessay. Just save your original graphics as PDF from Illustrator and you’re done.

Bob
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Katie_Lewek
Dec 27, 2006
Normally I get them from my Art Department which sends them via EPS format to me. I usually pick the grayscale because there cannot be any color in there. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t…in this case…it doesn’t 🙂 I need them in JPEG format to put into anchored frames in FrameMaker. If there is a way that I can avoid going from Illustrator EPS to opening them up into Photoshop Elements 3.0 to save as JPEG format then putting them into FrameMaker, that would be great!?

kt
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Bob Levine
Dec 27, 2006
Why can’t you use an EPS file in Framemaker?

Bob
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Katie_Lewek
Dec 27, 2006
There is no way of doing that, that I know of anyways. I just tried that and it came out a gray box that was fuzzy. The program I am using says this for example:

Page 1: Color image 135.341×27.0 pt 150.0215/152.0 ppi RGB (ICC) overprint: off

Would that mean anything to you?

kt
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Katie_Lewek
Dec 27, 2006
Also, what if I saved them as GIF files instead of JPEGS? WOuld that change anything?

kt
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Bob Levine
Dec 27, 2006
I am quite sure that you can place an EPS file in Framemaker. Why not check the Framemaker forum for help on this. You’ll likely have more luck there than here.

Bob
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Bob Levine
Dec 27, 2006
NEVER use GIF for printing. It’s a web only format.

For best results as a raster image, use TIF in Framemaker.

But this takes us back to the beginning. How are you creating the PDF?

What version of Acrobat?

Best practice is to print directly to Adobe PDF. If you have Acrobat 7 or 8, use the PDF X/1-a setting built into distiller.

And one more thing…you’re not scaling these graphics up in FM, are you? If so, that would definitely degrade the image quality by lowering the effective PPI of the graphic.

Bob

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