Re: Image resolution

In article <1174407304.778920.245330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chris <chris_au@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here's a fuller picture of what I'm doing. The image is the full page
(8.5" x 11") with text on top. There is no issue with its placement or
resizing. I define the paragraph styles and layout and provide the
client with the MSWord file. She then uses this as a template as
required for announcements by inputting the appropriate text.
I assume you are using US letter. Unless you have the margins set to
zero and you both have a printer that prints right to the edge, you
almost certainly have resizing.
You are using the image as a watermark? Or have you placed it in the
header? I might be missing something. Is it a picture of a form to fill
in?

Since the image fills the page, I supply it as a jpeg to make the size
manageble. This doesn't seem to be an issue, or have I just been
lucky?
Lucky I guess. One of the regulars here says Word on the Windows side
is not too clever with jpgs.

When the client sends me her finalized MSWord and PDF files to check,
it all looks good. It's just the resolution of the PDF image is
reduced.
And how good does the image look in Word when it comes back from the
client? I'm deeply suspicious of Word's graphics handling. I also
suspect some trickery. Word may well hold the original as well as a
resized version of the image. It might even cough out the resized one
on the PC then come back and display the good one to you.

Another trick: You can make is to create a PDF on the Mac, either with
Distiller or Preview. Then compare. Do you know the colorsync utility
trick for setting the res of pdfs in Preview? (Mac only of course)

We have narrowed the problem down to her settings in Acrobat Distiller
which we have changed from 150 ppi to 300 ppi in the appropriate
fields. She saved, restarted and tried again, to no avail; still 150
ppi. Have we missed a step?

Like I said before, Distiller is evil, but it does what it is told.

Since the client is on a PC, I'm at a bit of a loss to help her.

When said regular gets back to Sydney from Redmond, he'll probably beat
me round the head and ears and then give you good advice. Stay tuned.

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