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• • August 4, 2017 at 2:41 pm #96555
    Michelle Jolicoeur

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    I have an InDesign file that exceeds the maximum size of a PDF page. My vendor said to export it via a TIFF, but I don’t see that option. Many solutions online suggest creating a PDF, and then converting to a TIFF, but that defeats the whole purpose. Sure I can output it as a JPEG, and then convert to a TIFF, but I don’t really want to rasterize the text. What solutions are available?

  • August 6, 2017 at 8:45 am #96573
    Mike Wenzloff

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    You should design pages that exceed the 200″ limit (page + bleed size is limited to 200″ in a PDF) at say 50% scale and instruct the output vendor to scale to 200%.

    Which means that ideally if there are bitmaps also in the design, they should be twice the target resolution. So if the target resolution is 150 dpi, the images at 50% scale should be 300 effective DPI at design scale.

    There are ways around the above but they only work when sending the resulting PDF to a print vendor that is using Adobe RIPS (and a couple others based upon them, I believe).

    Mike

  • August 7, 2017 at 9:33 am #96591
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

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    1) How big is the file? (dimensions) I’m curious.

    2) What’s it for … is it a poster? A booth backdrop?

    3) Does your output vendor require a TIFF? Why not a JPEG? (Both would rasterize the fonts anyway)

    AM

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