ksbolduan@amherst.bitnet (10/29/90)
I have a 661k scan of an image which I've placed on both the left and right master pages of a PageMaker 4.0 document. It serves as background for the 20 page document on which I am working, though it is the only constant element on each page. I do not have a printer hooked up to my Mac, and so must create a postscript file, download it to a Vax and then print out from there. I've saved the scan as a TIFF, though I can rescan it if necessary. Problem: When Pagemaker creates the Postscript file, it feels that it needs to include the TIFF information _each_ time that it is displayed, i.e. 20 separate times. And at 661k each, well, needless to say that makes the PostScript file a bit unmanageable. Is there a way around this? Some ideas: 1. Trick/tell PageMaker to only include the information once, and access it repeatedly for each page. (I _thought_ that thatwas what Master pages were all about...) 2. Re-scan it as something other than a TIFF. While this would certainly decrease its size (I assume PICT would be appropriate) would the image quality still be sufficient? I will only be printing this out at 300 dpi, but it need to look like 300 dpi. I'm not conversant on the merits of different formats of saving scanned images... 3. I tried xeroxing the image onto paper which I fed into the Laserprinter. BIG MISTAKE! The toner from the copier came right off as it went through the print engine and it took 20 sheets of blank paper to clean the print engine off! 4. Doing one page at a time. Ugh. :-(. If anybody has any suggestions, please e-mail asap. Thanks, Kevin Bolduan KSBOLDUAN@AMHERST
bcs-jim@pro-angmar.UUCP (Jim Rinaldo) (11/02/90)
In-Reply-To: message from ksbolduan@amherst.bitnet Keven, on your PM 4, TIFF files on both master page question: The way clean PostScript is designed is that it MUST be able to access each page of a document as an individual page; it lets programs shuffle printing order, print odd/even pages and will lead to producing pages set up as signatures. Some suggestions: Place the Tiff files again, but this time do a Max compression on them. Just hit the ok button, and hold down the Cmnd-optoin-shift buttons. Or, open the Tiff files in photoshop, and save them as EPSs. You will have an option to compress them, and I also believe make them into binaries, which is more efficient but may make yer Vax barf. Hope that helps Jim Rinaldo Editor, Computer-Aided Publishing Solutions (CAPs) The Boston Computer Society BCS: (617) 367-8080, FAX: 367-8530 pro-angmar!bcs-jim@alphalpha.com