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Re: Black and white line drawings in quark

Karam — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:52:26 GMT

Hi Karen,

Try applying Full Resolution Preview on the image once its imported and check the results.

You can apply Full resolution Preview by doing a Ctrl+Click(Mac) or right click(Windows) on the image and Choosing Full Resolution Preview from the Preview resolution tab.

Regards

Karam

Re: Black and white line drawings in quark

davewalsh — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:17:27 GMT

The words 'pre' and 'press' come to mind ;-)

Re: Black and white line drawings in quark

Emma — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:36:50 GMT

Does it look ok when printed or pdf'd? That is the main thing. What you see in Quark is not supposed to be print-perfect, it's only a representation.

Re: Black and white line drawings in quark

tremolounge — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:06:03 GMT

If your artwork is super clean, you can probably get away with just scanning it as a bitmap at a minimum of 600dpi (800 or 1200 is better), but DON'T save it as a JPEG (that will probably add artifacts that you don't want) -- save it as TIFF. When you save a Photoshop file as EPS, it's not a vector image, it's just a bitmap EPS, so you don't gain anything there.

If your artwork needs to be cleaned up, what I do is scan as a grayscale TIFF at high resolution (again, 600-1200 dpi) -- the file might be huge, but it won't stay that way. Since it's grayscale, you can do things in Photoshop that you can't do with a bitmap. Specifically, you can adjust levels to control the "thickness" of the lines. Or use Image/Adjust/Threshold to do the same thing -- this gives you a preview of how the image will look when you convert it to a straight B&W bitmap, which would be the last step. When you make that conversion and save as TIFF, your file size will go way down.

Re: Black and white line drawings in quark

migman — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:21:33 GMT

And if you need it to look better on the screen for placement, you can enhance the preview, but it will slow things down a bit, so I usually enhance it, position it, then return to the low-res preview.

Re: Black and white line drawings in quark

monaco750 — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:36:58 GMT

I forgot to mention, we always save as .tiffs. It may look jagged because of the low resolution turned on, but the final pdf is great.

Re: Black and white line drawings in quark

monaco750 — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:32:02 GMT

Try 1200 dpi and choose the line drawing section in your scanner. Also, follow this tutorial about transparency: http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/photoshop/transparent/background.html

I hope this helps.

Black and white line drawings in quark

Kazzapatel — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:10:48 GMT

I am trying to scan a black and white line drawing and insert it into quark but I keep finding that the image is pixelated by the time it gets there. I've tried setting the scanning settings to 600dpi and saving it as a jpeg. I then open it in photoshop and change the levels to make it more contrasted and add a layer to make the white background transparent. In photoshop this image then looks really good, but when I put it into quark as a picture it looks all jaggedy. I tried saving it as a vector file (eps) but that was even worse! Please help - its driving me mad!

Thanks

Karen