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| location | Columbus, OH | |
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Feb 14 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Aug 13 |
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JPEG vs EPS in a workflow This is an excellent answer. As I understand our designer's workflow, the conversion happens simply to get it out of the JPEG format. Little if any editing happens during/after that point. |
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Mar 1 |
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JPEG vs EPS in a workflow @Philip Regan, thanks for the extra update! |
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Feb 28 |
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JPEG vs EPS in a workflow I'm accepting this answer. Even though it didn't fully answer my actual question, it does contain good info. |
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Feb 28 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Feb 28 |
accepted | JPEG vs EPS in a workflow |
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Feb 28 |
awarded | Critic |
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Feb 27 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Feb 24 |
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JPEG vs EPS in a workflow Yes it does dodge the issues with re-editing the image in the future and such, but it does get more to the heart of my original question and is the area that I don't yet fully understand. |
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Feb 24 |
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Feb 24 |
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JPEG vs EPS in a workflow Ok, now we're getting somewhere. Is it possible to set the internal representation in the PDF to be consistent? For example have the distiller push all images to TIFF, no matter what the source representation? |
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Feb 24 |
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JPEG vs EPS in a workflow So you're saying it always decodes the file and then re-encodes it to the same format? Why would it do that and not just copy the bits. Or does it only do that if you tell it to increase the compression. |
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Feb 24 |
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JPEG vs EPS in a workflow @PhilipRegan that doesn't make any sense. You seem to be saying that the PDF distillation will re-encode a jpeg, but will not re-encode other formats. If I have one jpeg and one tiff in the document and distill it, would it not either encode them to the same internal format, or keep them both as they are without any change? |
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Feb 24 |
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JPEG vs EPS in a workflow Also, it is in fact possible (in some cases) to edit a jpeg with NO LOSS at all. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#Lossless_editing and betterjpeg.com/features.htm |
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Feb 24 |
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JPEG vs EPS in a workflow @PhilipRegan I totally get what jpeg compression is, as well the compounding nature of the loss. Are you saying that If I import a JPEG into InDesign and then distill that document to a PDF it will lose more data than existed in the first place, but that an eps(or tiff), with all other things being equal, will not? |
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Feb 24 |
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JPEG vs EPS in a workflow Hardware may be cheaper than it was a few years ago, but it's not free. And it's not just the matter of throwing a bigger hard drive in someone's desktop. Plus I've got to consider back up and retention, which at the very least doubles the amount of storage required. |
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Feb 24 |
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JPEG vs EPS in a workflow I'm starting from a lossy format, and other than the lossy thing is there anything wrong with JPEG? |
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Feb 23 |
answered | Building hand-written fonts for lettering |
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Feb 23 |
awarded | Editor |
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Feb 23 |
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