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General => Creative Media => Topic started by: Bounty Hunter on April 29, 2013, 10:54:45 am

Title: Print folk
Post by: Bounty Hunter on April 29, 2013, 10:54:45 am

I have an A0 sized poster (I did 150 ppi cause they said they don't care about res) to submit for uni.

They want it in pdf format less than 6MB

What settings should I make/do?

I have no idea what it's being printed on.

Title: Print folk
Post by: Retardobot on April 29, 2013, 11:00:52 am

What are you exporting from?

This is typical of uni-heads. "they don't care about resolution".

No, but you'll all care when your poster comes out looking like spaghetti.

If you send me a working file, I can run it through distiller and make sure it's at a decent res with minimal file size.

Title: Print folk
Post by: Bounty Hunter on April 29, 2013, 11:13:54 am

Quote from: Retardobot;1524291

What are you exporting from?

This is typical of uni-heads. "they don't care about resolution".

No, but you'll all care when your poster comes out looking like spaghetti.

If you send me a working file, I can run it through distiller and make sure it's at a decent res with minimal file size.

Photoshop.

I fully know what will happen if it doesn't have a high enough res.

So it's a 150Mb .psd file, what's the best way of getting it to you?

Title: Print folk
Post by: Retardobot on April 29, 2013, 11:24:12 am

Jesus balls.

PM me your email address and I've give you access to my Dropbox to which you can upload it to.

Or, if you have a Dropbox, you can upload it to your own and give me access to it.

Title: Print folk
Post by: Emrico1 on April 29, 2013, 01:15:36 pm

Ah, if you've designed the whole thing half res in photoshop, then maybe it can be re put together better in illustrator.
If you keep the text (assuming there is some) as vector and isolate the images you should be OK. Epmty areas won't cost you in file size and you can control the compression on the images until you have the file size as small as 6mb or lower. I'm sure Rii will hook you up :)

Title: Print folk
Post by: Retardobot on April 29, 2013, 01:40:20 pm

I was just going to dump the PSD into an indesign document, push it out as a postscript and then distill it.

Usually keeps good quality in friendly file sizes when the original artwork has been done in Photoshop.

Title: Print folk
Post by: Emrico1 on April 29, 2013, 01:55:47 pm

Distiller will just compress the huge image.

Which is fine if the poster requires the whole space as an image but it might only require small image areas in which case you could get a full quality file at 6mb maybe.
It all depends on the design of the poster really.

Title: Print folk
Post by: Retardobot on April 29, 2013, 02:17:00 pm

Quote from: Emrico1;1524305

Distiller will just compress the huge image.

Which is fine if the poster requires the whole space as an image but it might only require small image areas in which case you could get a full quality file at 6mb maybe.
It all depends on the design of the poster really.

Yep. However, if I choose to distill it at "press quality" the compression shouldn't be an issue.

Title: Print folk
Post by: Bounty Hunter on April 29, 2013, 03:24:55 pm

submitted.

Thanks for the help though guys