Comments on: My $100 EPS Challenge http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php InDesignSecrets Blog and Podcast Fri, 24 May 2013 18:26:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Grant http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php/comment-page-2#comment-468451 Grant Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:29:37 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php#comment-468451 Just catching up on the outcome of this great contest.

Jak, I would be interested in learning more about your work flow for this process.

…I created separations for orange and blue (without a 3rd party tool) by manipulating the cyan, magenta and yellow channels in Photoshop and proofed to spot color Matchprints…If there is no software for 2-color separations, I could be persuaded to write an article on how to do it if there is interest…

]]> By: Angela Snyder http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php/comment-page-2#comment-467608 Angela Snyder Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:55:40 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php#comment-467608 MathType.

Even the Mac 6.0 beta. : /

]]> By: John Gilbert http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php/comment-page-2#comment-339957 John Gilbert Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:10:56 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php#comment-339957 There seems to be some communication gap regarding the term “bitmapped image” as it it used in the challenge description. Photoshop calls any 1-bit (black & white) image “bitmap” for color mode; Windows has a Bitmap file format with the extension BMP; Any pixel-based image can be described as bitmapped (sometimes called raster).

I hardly ever use the Photoshop EPS format. I will generally save a color photo or line art as a TIFF with LZW compression. Our imagesetter has problems with JPEG-encoded EPS files, and high-res images can be huge if not compressed some way.

The benefit to EPS images is that they always print every pixel. TIFF images often get subsampled when printed from Quark, PageMaker, InDesign, etc. Quark has an option called “Full Resolution TIFFs” to handle that issue. InDesign and PageMaker have similar options.

Printing a screen shot without turning on the Full-res-TIFF option will surely yield unsatisfactory results. Quark on a Mac also has a bug (feature?) where the PDF Export uses the Full-Res-TIFF option only if you have it selected in the print window.

]]> By: william http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php/comment-page-2#comment-339553 william Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:21:57 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php#comment-339553 Well, i need to make an duotone indesign book, 1 specific red en 1 specific blue, but i also need to export it to pdf for preview and the document refuses to export the cmyk+2 spotchannels .psd, but it will export the multichannel .eps. Now, after reading Klaus Norby’s method, I just spent alot of time making the cmyk+2 .psd s, now i can’t get em into a regular color space anymore…

]]> By: David Blatner http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php/comment-page-1#comment-331236 David Blatner Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:16:02 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php#comment-331236 CJ, as was mentioned earlier, duotones are usually best saved as PSD files.

]]> By: cj http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php/comment-page-1#comment-328132 cj Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:14:52 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php#comment-328132 What about duotones?

]]> By: Lazza http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php/comment-page-1#comment-289625 Lazza Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:31:17 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php#comment-289625 because I feel like it

]]> By: joecab http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php/comment-page-1#comment-273577 joecab Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:56:58 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php#comment-273577 Really? Hm I’m going to have to experiment a little to see what’s really going on. Or it could be a very old habit from the early 1990′s that I never let go of.

]]> By: David Blatner http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php/comment-page-1#comment-272508 David Blatner Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:26:45 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php#comment-272508 Joecab, that is curious. I’ve been printing screen shots since 1990 and have never found EPS to be of better quality. I usually use TIFF. If you’re getting antialising when printing, something else is going wrong.

]]> By: joecab http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php/comment-page-1#comment-272366 joecab Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:51:37 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/my-100-eps-challenge.php#comment-272366 This is easy: screen shots. If you are reproducing a screen shot (or any bitmap, actually) and you want it to reproduce perfectly, pixel by pixel, without antialiasing, Photoshop EPS is the way to go. I’ve done tons of manuals where I’ve had to resize screen shots and nothing else ever quite looked right.

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