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screenshot > InDesign>PDF strategy
- Subject: screenshot > InDesign>PDF strategy
- From: neilB <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 01:15:35 +0000
Guys
please can you help out with this one.
sorry to take up bandwidth but I've seen so many crappy pdf's I'm
beginning to think it's impossible to get them nice.
I have a real tough time trying to get nice clean screenshots at a
reasonable size in PDF's from InDesign 152.
I followed Henrik's post [quoted below] to the letter and it works
great but the Screenshots are too big to fit the A4 page size.
Unless i'm missing an obvious step??
If I resize the problems start -even if I upsample [288], resize
to 50% [which size seems ideal] and then downsample to 72 ppi.
Looks good in Photoshop and Indesign but horrible in Acrobat
reader.
On 10/8/01 at 6:49 pm, email@hidden (Henrik Holmegaard) wrote:
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I wrote:
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> Anybody know of a product that handles the recurrent screenshot
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> nightmare of illegible text?
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The answer is to shoot the screenshot and start a new document window
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which Photoshop automatically sizes to the dimensions of what's on
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the clipboard, of course.
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From here on out no destructive JPEG and no descructive downsizing of
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the screenshot dimensions:
so here's the rub. I'm pretty new to indesign but if I place the
full size files they are much too big, resizing causes problems.
What is the ideal ppi resolution for an indesign / Acrobat
[printable] screenshot?
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Use binary EPS as format and set Image Interpolation in the PS6 EPS
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export dialog. This enables an image dictionary key that tells PSL2,
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PSL3 and Acrobat to do a practically perfect interpolation to the
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rendering resolution of the actual device whether a monitor or a
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printer.
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When the PDF is created, downsampling is set to OFF (a screendump is
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72 dpi already) and compression to ON in InDesign, Illustrator or
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Distiller.
I don't see ON in InDesign, only None/auto/JPEG/Zip?
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Dov's original post says to enable PostScript Color Management and
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embed CMYK, RGB, gray, but as enabling PSCM in any case converts to
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Lab whether in InDesign or Distiller, that step might as well be done
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right off the bat, and then neither embed ICC nor CSA information.
so simply check PostScript Color Management - that's it?
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The PS6 Color Settings dialog unfolded to show Advanced Mode, placed
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in ID152 and exported with maximum quality compression: As Lab 100
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Kb; as ICCBased gray: 184 Kb; as deviceGray: 94 Kb.
no downsampling? how do you get it to fit the page??
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The effect is incredible. You can zoom in to 200% ... 400% and it's
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still perfect.
thanks so much
neilB
Neil Barstow