Daily Dose of DTP: 17. Pictures in Print

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Daily Dose of DTP 17. Pictures in Print From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing Our next dose of graphics knowledge introduces the two best graphics formats for use in print desktop publishing. One comes from the world of bitmaps and the other from the vector sector. If you only print to your own desktop printer, other graphics formats may serve your needs. For high resolution commerical printing, most of the time TIFF and EPS are required. Class Notes: This is not simply a word-a-day course. The lessons follow a specific order in roughly the following groupings: General concepts > Things you need > Font specifics > Image specifics > Prepress & Printing > Rules & Tutorials (bold indicates the stage in which this lesson falls) Today's Definitions TIFF The most important format you may have never used. EPS Currently it's the cream of the crop of vector graphics formats. Today's Trivia TIF or TIFF You'll sometimes see the TIFF file format written with only one F. The reason is simple. The file format is called TIFF but for Windows users the 3-letter extension for TIFF graphics has always been .tif so many people have written the name of the file format as TIF, omitting the final F. Q&A What's the Best Graphics Format for Desktop Publishing? Graphics come in many flavors but not all file formats are suitable for all purposes. How do you know which is best? In general, there are graphics formats suitable for printing and those for on-screen viewing or online publishing. Within each group there are also formats that are better than others for the same task. This email is written by: Jacci Howard Bear Desktop Publishing Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Daily Dose of DTP' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement