Reply To: InDesign/Prepress Myths

Alan,
You have no idea how many times I have recently read of people working with type in a pixel format, because — application, knowledge, or workflow preclude vector work!

As I picture their black 10 point Modern typeface at 300ppi, I advise: To alleviate some of the inherent limitations of the Tif format when type is an element, use the highest resolution you can “afford” or the highest your press/prepress will accept, hopefully 600-900ppi. (If prepress know enough to accept it, they will know not to purposefully downsample.)

The page of Rasterized PDFs illustrates No Downsampling takes place based upon Line Screen, at least using APPE2. As far as this actually being done in a dysfunctional work flow, my post above describes the book printer (volume close to a million titles a month) doing this, well into 2010, with PDFs of book covers & dust jackets not created via Distiller.

MG
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