Re: Ridiculously Enormous PDFs and Printing
Re: Ridiculously Enormous PDFs and Printing
- Subject: Re: Ridiculously Enormous PDFs and Printing
- From: mathew <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:14:14 -0400
On Thursday, Jul 17, 2003, at 10:07 US/Eastern, Robert Clair wrote:
In the course of the discussion I was asked why I'd want to do such
a thing (make printer resolution tiffs) instead of letting the printing
architecture worry about it. The original reasons were allowing the
user to take the image into Photoshop and to be able to drive oddball
output devices that don't have RIPs. I'm not entirely certain of
the current state of the art, but at least some older model laser
engravers
work of off tiff.
Now let me add another reason for doing your own rasterizing. The
printing
architecture makes really BIG pdfs as spool files. This is a well known
complaint, but it can veer towards insanity in certain situations:
You know, if you're concerned about file size (not to mention
cross-platform and multi-software compatibility) then you really ought
to be using PNG, not TIFF.
TIFF has poor compression, and the multitude of TIFF variants (with
different algorithms and even different byte ordering) means that
there's no guarantee a TIFF file written by program A will be readable
by program B, even if both claim to support TIFF.
Photoshop, of course, supports PNG; as does any application with
QuickTime support.
mathew
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