Expert: Huma Riaz - 12/20/2004

Question
Hi Huma,
Hows it gonig. I have a problem with my file sizes. The seem massive more so when pictures are involved. As some off my work noe needs to be sent to printers file size is makeing my life difficult. Noe i know about JPEGs and understand the basics off file size. Have i missed something.
Any advice would be great.
Tanks

Answer
Dear Barry,

Printing sizes does increases due to high quality resolution files, but saving in JPG is not a good solution to deal with, JPG has a compression technique that may rapidly reduce your file size but also decrease your file's quality and you will get nothing but a jaggy/bad quality image after printing

TIFF or EPS are the formats that can go with printing files. For the compression you can use LZW compression in TIFF file.

To decrease the file size try to reduce the layers, as less as the layers in file, you will get a reduced file size


Feel Free to ask anything further

Huma Riaz
Location: Karachi-Pakistan