Re: [Fwd: Re: postscripting from ID2 and ID CS]
Re: [Fwd: Re: postscripting from ID2 and ID CS]
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: postscripting from ID2 and ID CS]
- From: Charlie Rieger <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:28:13 -0400
John,
Look for anything in the file that is causing CS to flatten the file before
printing. You may want to check out Adobe's file IDCS_PrintGuide.pdf, just
do a google search for that file name.
Charlie
on 6/18/04 4:09 PM, John MacDonald at email@hidden wrote:
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Subject: Re: postscripting from ID2 and ID CS
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:19:56 -0400
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From: John MacDonald <email@hidden>
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Organization: Dodge Color, Inc.
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To: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
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References: <BCF89B54.4F4A%email@hidden>
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First, it takes much longer to postscript for some reason, often more
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than 6 times longer. If I'm working on a large file, say anything over
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300mgs (when uncompressed), this can make a big difference.
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Secondly, it takes up much more space, often 10-20 times the amount of
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space. This means more disk space to hold these files, more transfer
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time if they need to be written somewhere, and more media to archive them.
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I just did a test. I have an eps saved with "maximum quality" jpeg
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compression. It is 62.4mb uncompressed and 2.4mb compressed. I put it
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into an ID2 file and postscripted it. The postscripting took less than a
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second and the postscript file size is 2.5 mb. I opened the same file in
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ID CS. The postscript time was over 10 seconds and the file size is 42.9mb.
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My last concern is a general uneasiness over what has been done to the
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resulting postscript out of ID CS, ie. is it changing the resolution,
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color or some other attribute of my file? I've never had time to test
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these things and I was hoping Adobe could explain some things, but
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they've been pretty unresponsive, and I think the listserve I'm on is
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mostly for designers; they don't seem to very familiar with the service
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provider end of things. By the way, do you know of a listserve for
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service providers? Colorsync users is the closest I've ever found.
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Thank you for your concern.
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John MacDonald
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Dodge Color, Inc.
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Roger Breton wrote:
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> I haven't tried this and its quite possible, so much has changed between 2.0
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> and CS (3.0). But why is that a problem for you? What kind of hardship does
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> it create?
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> Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
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> http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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