Reply To: InDesign/Prepress Myths

Mark, I would take a guess that the people you're describing aren't the kind of folks who frequent this site. But, like David, I'd never, ever suggest to someone that upping the output resolution is a solution, or even that it is helpful. That's just validating ignorance and encouraging bad practice. One doesn't solve miseducation with further miseducation, but by pointing out the correct problem and the correct technical handling.

If a publisher wishes to rasterize a PDF, that's up to them. It's stupid (okay, it's completely retarded), but it's their choice. The answer is to educate the publisher (or just use a different one), not invent unusual solutions to a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. Solutions like that have a nasty and inexorable habit of becoming problems in themselves, so from both a practical and a philosophical viewpoint they are a really bad idea.