Photoshop or Pagemaker or what?

LJ
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Landis_Johnson
May 21, 2007
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Looking for advise. PC/XP user. Need to assemble large photos on 24" x 48" document to be printed on an HP 500 large format printer. Any suggestions regarding the software I should use?

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chrisjbirchall
May 21, 2007
Most PS/Printer combinations will handle up to 30,000 pixels (in any one dimention) so you shoulf have no trouble with a 24×48" at 300 ppi.
LJ
Landis_Johnson
May 21, 2007
In essence you’re saying either program will work for this job. Which do you think would be best or is there a more cost effective program. I have used Publisher for years and just when I’m about to change they improve it enough for my needs. Publisher wants to tile the printing on pages of 11" x 17".
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Bob Levine
May 21, 2007
Why in the world would you use either PM (which is all but dead and buried) or Publisher to do this?

Just print them right from Photoshop or save as PDF and print from Acrobat or Reader.

Bob
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Landis_Johnson
May 21, 2007
Thank you. These are just the kind of comments / information I’m looking to find. Will Acrobat do this without loss of quality?
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Rob_Keijzer
May 21, 2007
…handle up to 30,000 pixels…

Since Ps CS (well, actually since Stephen Johnson) the limit should be 300,000 pixels.

Any volunteers to check? We’ll bring you some food occasionally.

Rob
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Landis_Johnson
May 21, 2007
I did read 300,000 pixels for photoshop. I’m really a beginnner when it comes to Adobe products. I know this is going to sound ignorant however, what is Acrobat for other than converting scanned documents to a pdf. Is it like Pagemaker and Publisher?
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Phosphor
May 21, 2007
"We’ll bring you some food occasionally."

Heh @ Rob!
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Nick_Decker
May 21, 2007
Landis, I don’t know what the size limits are in Photoshop Elements, but you might want to post your question in the Elements Forum. I only suggest that because if you don’t have a strong need for all of the features of the full-blown Photoshop app, you’d save a ton of money by buying Elements instead.
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Don_McCahill
May 21, 2007
While you can create a 300,000 pixel file in Photoshop, you cannot be sure that a printer will work the the PSB file format. The 30,000 limit is the safe one.

Acrobat is a tool for using the postscript language to make graphic files device independent. It is really just an output tool, you always create your work in another program and then use Acrobat to package it up for printing. If your HP 500 people can use it (they should) then it would be a good route to take.

And forget you ever heard the word Pagemaker. It is an obsolete program, and Adobe InDesign is the replacement. And ID is so far above Publisher in capabilities that I choke to say they are both in the same program category.

MacBook Pro 16” Mockups 🔥

– in 4 materials (clay versions included)

– 12 scenes

– 48 MacBook Pro 16″ mockups

– 6000 x 4500 px

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