We are a magazine publishers and produce print-ready PDFs straight from Quark. (We use Quark 6.52 on OS 10.4.11.) Our printers' guidelines are to use 'Compression - Automatic ZIP/JPG Low' and 'Downsample to 300dpi' for colour and greyscale image.
We understand that 'Low' in Quark means low compression and therefore high quality (the opposite of Adobe terminology), but should we be using 'None' - surely that would be best quality?
Do the compression settings just apply to JPG images? Or does it compress the whole page, as it were? We always use TIFF files - are these compressed? (We thought that TIFF files couldn't be compressed.)
I see from other posts that the Quark JAWS engine in 6.5 is not perhaps the best way of producing PDFs. For best possible print results, should we use another method, eg produce a Postscript file and then use Distiller? Are there other methods?
Does Quark v7 and/or v8 handle PDF production in the same way?
Lots of questions! Any comments, advice or recommendations would be appreciated.
thanks in advance,
Mark