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[David Roth]

OK, thanks for clarifying that. I'll check out your suggestions.

What should the graphic designer provide the vector graphic image
template in for development then? They usually work I believe in
something like PhotoShop or Quark. I'm guessing, TIFF? Thanks!

David Roth

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Michael Traffanstead
<mike at thesandbenders.com> wrote:
> Don't know why I typed psd, that's the photoshop file format. You want PDF.
>
> Ghostscript is still the best open source utility for manipulating
> Postscript and PDF files. The gswrapper project on sourceforge has a
> php wrapper.
>
> Mike
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 8, 2012, at 5:46 PM, David Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OK. Are their PHP library routines to support a PSD file format? Thanks!
>>
>> David Roth
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Michael Traffanstead
>> <mike at thesandbenders.com> wrote:
>>> And when your creating a PDF you can specify the resolution of
>>> included images (which are typically embedded as a JPEG) but this
>>> defeats the entire reason for using PSD.  You really want to use
>>> vector PSD for printing if it's possible for your workflow.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Apr 7, 2012, at 10:10 PM, David Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've noticed that when I've take a large file graphic image, that PDF
>>>> makes a smaller file out of the whole thing. I'm wondering if there is
>>>> a way to tell PDF not to do that to allow the printer to munch on the
>>>> higher quality image?
>>>>
>>>> David Roth
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Rolan Yang <rolan at omnistep.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 4/6/2012 4:26 PM, David Roth wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want to be able to take the output of this on a USB flash drive (or
>>>>>> DVD-ROM) to a professional printer that is using 11 x 17 color laser
>>>>>> printers. I want to make this as easy as possible for the printer, so
>>>>>> they just open the file for printing and go, without any sort of
>>>>>> adjustments or problems.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What PHP graphics libraries and techniques would be best for this?
>>>>>> Any tips for creating a high quality PDF file for the printer? Or
>>>>>> should this be provided in another file format?
>>>>>> Any tips for working with aligning with pre-cut cards? Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My vote is for an output in pdf format.