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I currently use slightly-less-than-legal versions of Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Quark. In an effort to clean up my act, I'm going to take advantage of FAQ Wife's academicness and get discounted, but fully legal, versions of the software.
Questions:
- If I get InDesign, will I miss Quark?
- Is GoLive a substitute for Dreamweaver, or do the two complement each other
I'm thinking I'll just get the Adobe CS2 package, but maybe also get the Macromedia add-on, even though I'd mostly just use Dreamweaver from the latter (I'm not Flash savvy).
Huh. I'm surfing the web and watching CPU usage on my work XP machine (two point something Ghz, 1 Gig RAM.) Firefox does take more CPU than I think it should. When I go to scifi.com (which always has a shitload of animated graphics which pegs the CPU usage on my G3 iBook), the usage on my XP box is still averages around 70%. It seems to average around 30 % on IE 6.0.
Can someone help me with PDF creation? I'm printing to Distiller and can't not get rid of the JPG jaggies. It's just amping all the artifacts, even though I'm doing everything I can to not compress the images. Is Distiller the problem? I'm pretty sure my home machine will print to PDF without Distiller, but I don't have this option here.
I'm assuming you've already set image quality to "maximum."
How many DPI are the images? If the pdf is being created at a higher DPI than the original images, then they'll look jagged.
The images are 72 DPI. Let me make sure that's the PDF resolution.
Thanks, DX! Some of them still look mildly crappy onscreen (as opposed to all and very), but they print much more cleanly.
If you're printing the PDF, then 72dpi images will look crappy printed irrespective of the "PDF resolution" (I'm not sure what that means -- text is resolution independent). Ideally, you want the images to be 300dpi, although less than that can look OK.
I'm not sure what that means -- text is resolution independent
Text is, PDFs aren't. There is indeed a driver setting for the PDF resolution.
I printed an image from the file, and it looked decent. That's all I care about.
I think that if a PDF is entirely text and other vector-based elements, then it is resolution independent. I've opened PDFs in Photoshop and Photoshop has asked me what resolution I want to open it at.
