anyone ever done GD for print b4? i deparately need some translation

[Illuminae]

argh, im in a pickle..
need to make my 1st brochure, (oh no!), and i need to check up on a few things that the printer specified....

-Silouette / Shadows = best to silo images and create drop shadows in black only with feathered edges

wtf is a feathered edge?

-layout = send layout as printer spreads, not reader spreads to avoid imposing costs


what are those types of spreads and how do i specify it?


-Include all printer and screen fonts

does that mean tell him what fonts i used? or actually attatch the fonts? and what is the diff btwn a printer and a screen font?

-Include PDF's

i was told to make it in an EPS, why woudl i have a PDF???



im going to be searching around online for any info, but anyone who knows what this is, i would appreciate your input greatly!!
thanks so much kirupans

[gr8jay]

Feathered edges are blurred edges. The boundary of the shadow will not be prominent. I dont know what are spreads ur talking about, and for brochures you could use .tif format. Yes, printer will need the fonts ur using. While u save the files, save as pdfs too. I wonder y he needs it, may be for some reference of sort.
Hope it helps, u could read more about this even in PS help.

[Illuminae]

thank u so much gr8jay! that helped me a lot :D

[gr8jay]

Are u going for an offset print or screen printing???BTW i hope u know u have to have the resolution set to 300dpi or more for quality pints

[Illuminae]

um
i dunno what they are
:(

[gr8jay]

Oh ok
I dont know what kind of printing they do , but here(India) we have offset and screen and also digital..hard to explain:)

[Illuminae]

lol.. its ok, im googleing it.. :beam:

[gr8jay]

ok :) Oh did u see the edited post I asked if u knew the images should ne of 300 dpi or more for printing.

[Illuminae]

oh, no i didnt see that. he said set it to 300

[gr8jay]

yes it has to be 300 :)
I saw ur website now its good:) I liked that transformation of tadpole to frog:) neat. Does redgolgi mean red frog??? Sorry If it isnt...

[gr8jay]

There is something about printer spread and reader spread for u.Hope it helps

http://www.digitalmediadesigner.com/2001/10_oct/features/alap4.htm

[Illuminae]

thanks again! and a golgi isn't a frog, but it's part of a cell, so its sort of like part of a frog..lol :D

[gr8jay]

Oops its been long since I left biology...lol ;) golgi complex... something near mitochondrion well ..now forget it lol...lol from printing to cell lol tats way off

[SureShot]

Originally posted by redGolgi

-Include all printer and screen fonts

does that mean tell him what fonts i used? or actually attatch the fonts? and what is the diff btwn a printer and a screen font?

-Include PDF's

i was told to make it in an EPS, why woudl i have a PDF???



im going to be searching around online for any info, but anyone who knows what this is, i would appreciate your input greatly!!
thanks so much kirupans

Ok for the fonts - make sure you just attach them along with the file you send. I would suggest zipping them all up into one tidy neat little file. One way to get around using fonts is to make your design in Illustrator and then when you are all finished - highlight all your type, go to "type" and "create outlines" this will get rid of all the fonts and make them vector lines. Be sure to save this as a different version so you still have your native file with the text intact in case you have to make any changes later on.


As for the PDF - you need to save your file as an EPS and then use Acrobat Distiller to make a pdf from that EPS file. Make sure you choose either "press quality" or "high quality" either should work fine if you are doing it all at 300dpi.

If you need any more help, let me know :)

[Illuminae]

:beam: thank you! i will. im feeling 80% better about this.. hehe.

[comicGeek]

Here are based on my experience as the Art and Graphics Editor in the student press:
We use Adobe InDesign to do the layout. Sometimes we used Adobe Pagemaker. We designed all the images and graphics in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. We set the resolution of the raster images to 300dpi, CMYK and saved them to .TIF, For vector images, we saved them to .EPS. We placed all images on one folder and all their original files on another. We placed the images into the layout by LINKING them. After everything is edited we burn them to a CD and bring them to the printing press.

If you're client asks for the original files charge them extra (double the price). Unless otherwise it is stated in the contract!

Goodluck! :)

[Illuminae]

hey, i have a question. i should be doing this thing in 300 dpi, so i set the file to that in 'document settings'

now, i have it all measured out (obviosly) with the rulers and all. but here's the thing. i want to import some images from photoshop that are about 1" square, or whatnot. they are 300dpi. i saved them as pngs, and i made sure the dimensions were exactly what i wanted. but when i import it into illustrator, it is SO much bigger then i want it to be..
what do i do? i cant just resize it cuz it will look like butt. but i have no idea why if they are both measured in inches, a 1" pic would be totally out of proportion

please help me :(
[/grovel]

[.soulty]

you set the document settings in illustrator to 300 dpi? .

Dont think that is nessasary in illustrator because you are importing the images (tiffs, or as you did PNG') into illustrator by placing them, which is basically not embeding the image into the illustrator file but loading it external from a path, With this you would have to make sure you include the folder of images you link to illustrator.

From my experience and especially when using large hi res images, i would first in photoshop , make sure the sizes are right to what you want them (check image size, Edit / ImageSize)

then when your happy with the image, save the PSD, then flattern the image, save it as a TIFF / which is to be "Placed" in illustrator.

Check the document size in illustrator , and then place (File/place)
the TIFF you just saved, make sure you tick the link tick box on the left. (if you dont it will embed the image which will increase the size on the illustrator file and really slow down your work flow)

:: make sure you are working by the same measurments (mm, cm) in each Illustrator and Photoshop.

If this dosent help, just yell and i will try again. :)

[Illuminae]

ok, soulty,
(BTW, thanks sooo much for your help)
ok, heres the thing, i need the image to be transparent. (thats why i used pngs)
i tried doign a tiff with transparency, but it wouldnt import for some reason.. anyway, i solved the prob by importing the psd diredctly into IL, it looks all pixellated but the size is accurate, and i tested the print and it prints fine, so who cares. maybe someday ill understand but for now all i knwo is it will work and i can do this and get some sleep soon.
:beam: