Quark 5 PC - what's the best image format

[Cowtoon]

Man, I feel like I'm hoggingspace in this forum. </div>
2-part question. </div>
This little job that was given to me yesterday afternoon- unfortunately, a rush. I haven't done anything with Quark since November, when I first learned the thing ... and now I'm immerced. </div>
Workingon a 4-page article withhigh resolution images - good clarity,definition and colour. </div>
1.Images are available asTiffs, jpg's and pdfs. Which format will give me the best definition when I create the pdf.It will bepublished to a scientific magazine.</div>
2. After sending to pdf(by printing to distiller -hoping this is the right way),I notice that myimages have much less clarity in the pdf than in Quark (this is most unusual).How do I overcome this? I realize this might be too big a question - there are so many settings. Thanks again. </div>
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[Mickey]

#1 Tiff

#2 Make sure your at least using the press quality setting in distiller and you should be ok!

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#2 is a must.

But so is #1.

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[Cowtoon]

Mickey ... am I totally unenlightened if I say I don't know where the 'press quality' setting is - in distiller. I've modified a lot of those settings, in my attemps to get good quality images. I'm getting closer ... it isn't that they are bad, but they certainly aren't as vibrant as what I see in the Quark document. Thanks.

[Cowtoon]

Thanks a bunch.
I had chosen tiff in all instances but 2. I've now chosen all tiffs, except for where I had to choose between a jpg and a pdf - chose the pdf - it was clearer after pdf'ing the file.

[D-Zine]

If you go into Distiller and into the job option settings in your menu you will see the optimize for press setting. I can't remember exactly where its at and don't have Distiller at home to look and see...sorry! :o)


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[LTG]

Finding 'press quality' setting:

When I print a document (control P), Distiller comes up as one of my printer choices and I go to 'properties' and then 'Adobe PDF Settings' - the first item is 'Adobe PDF Page Size' the second item is 'Adobe PDF Conversion Settings' - click the down arrow and the menu will pop down - choose 'press quality' and embed fonts by unchecking the box in front of 'do not send fonts to Adobe PDF'. (sorry, if I gave too much info, I wasn't clear on exactly what you weren't sure about so I wanted to make sure I covered it) Maybe there's another way, but that's what I do.

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[Mickey]

If you are using a mac open your Adobe Acrobat folder and look for the distiller folder Open the distiller application and in the job options drop down menu choose press, if you have acrobat 6.0 in the default setting drop down menu choose press quality.

If your trying to compare them visually on screen you going to drive your self nuts!!! Stop ASAP!!!

Open your tiffs in photoshop if they look good on screen and print ok and are 300 dpi cmyk images your set! Bring them into quark and trust that they will print fine. Quark will display them differently then photoshop, and when you go to the pdf they will again show up different. just remember that if the tiff file you started with is set up correctly then your quark and pdf document will use that information for its output. Don't ever look at your screen for a true rep of what you will want in the end, especilly if you have imported images into quark or are viewing a pdf on screen.

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