Re: PDF for Lulu

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:23:55 -0400, E Z Peaces wrote
(in article <f6ghit$g5l$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

Jolly Roger wrote:
On 2007-07-04 09:51:31 -0500, E Z Peaces <cash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

A relative writes books of interest to certain scholars. Lulu.com
works for her because it would be foolish to print up 10,000 copies at
once. She had a PC.

Her sister has a Mac and is trying to set up the cover for her latest
book. The cover is to have a scan of b/w art on the front and the
title on the spine. So far the print looks jagged.

Do you mean the print looks jagged on the screen? If so, can you take a
screen shot by pressing Command-Shift-4 and drawing a rectangle around
the jagged text, then posting the image to http://imageshack.us and
giving us a URL to the image on the web so we can see what you are
talking about?

What program did you use to author the text?

She used GraphicConverter

Graphic Converter is not a good tool for this.

Photoshop (any version which does layers) would be better. Illustrator would
also be good. Any page layout app, including, at the low end, MS Word and at
the not-so-low-end, Apple Pages and at the higher end InDesign, would be
ideal.

to open the scan and add text. She emailed
the result to me in PICT.

Not a good choice. Use TIFF or PNG, not PICT and never, ever use JPG.

The scan and the text were both jagged. The
scan was jagged because apparently she'd reduced resolution instead of
zooming out to see the whole image. The text is still jagged although
she found a way to improve it somewhat.

What program did you use to create the PDF?

So far there is no PDF of the cover. I think GC can save as PDF, but I
don't know if it would be suitable.

GC will save as PDF, but it'll save what you have. So you'll have jaggies.
Not good. Far better: scan the pix in (at a good resolution, so that you have
freedom to play with them) and lay them out and add the text in either a
layout app or Photoshop. A layout app would be best. _Then_, once
everything's set, save to PDF. Photoshop and InDesign can, of course, do that
natively, as all Adobe owns all three.



Also, what program are you using to view this PDF?

Have you tried printing out the PDF? The text should not be jagged on
printed copy.

So far there is no PDF to view or print.

Years ago I used to print in two passes to use one app for graphics and
another for text. My sophistication isn't much better now.

If I'm doing one page now, I use Photoshop. If I'm doing more than one page,
I use some app (usually, but not always, Photoshop) to pull in the pix and
then lay it out in another (Pages, or Word, or InDesign, depending on how
complex the job is and who the intended audience is. Quick'n'dirty gets MS
Word. Serious gets InDesign. Something inbetween gets Pages. I'm using Word
less and less nowadays, though, as it's just too much like work to dig it
out.)



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