About Richard Roberts Expertise I can answer any questions about database publishing with PageMaker, both Macintosh and Windows. I am also very familiar with automating PageMaker using various programming languages for both Macintosh and Windows.
I am an expert in creating directories, catalogs, school yearbooks, and any thing else that comes from a database and wants to look good in PageMaker.
Experience I am a programmer and I own a software company (GalleyMaster Software) that specializes in database publishing for PageMaker.
I have written five commercial database publishing applications for PageMaker, both Windows and Macintosh, and also do custom programming for database publishing in Pagemaker. I enjoy helping people do amazing things with PageMaker.
Expert: Richard Roberts Date: 8/24/2001 Subject: Pagemaker--importing graphics
Question Every time I import a text graphic created in another program into Pagemaker, it pixelates badly and it looks terrible--all fuzzy and disjointed. Unfortunately, the company that I work for has its logo as a text graphic file and wants that logo used. Its on their web page, etc. etc. I noticed that if I import it into MS word, it doesn't do this half as much. Is there anything that I can do? I think they created the logo in Photoshop. It is a .jpeg.
Answer Hello Stan,
Jpegs were designed for online use, not print use. It uses a lossy compression scheme that throws away information contained in the graphics. You may not notice this on the screen which is 72 - 96 DPI, but it will become painfully clear at 300 - 1200 DPI in print documents. You need to find the source file of this jpeg file. It probably started out as a tiff or eps file. Nobody makes a jpeg from scratch, it is almost always converted from something else. Find that original tiff or eps and your PageMaker doc will be perfect.
