Hi, I’ve been struggling with Freeway Pro 5 for the last 6 days, trying to get it to work out my images (no photo’s, but illustrations made with Adobe Illustrator…) not to change into those horrible fuzzy things as soon as they enter Freeway… with no succes that far.
Every type of image I’ve tried is “doing it” again. I have read the comments about not to use .jpeg, but I don’t.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks a lot!
CyberDaph.
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Well CyberDaph,
all depends on the “how” you put your images in freeway.
If you for example draw a graphic item insert a picture or graphic in it, it will be set as “jpeg 75%” by default. That means:
Check in inspector palette (third icon) what settings are in there. Change f.e. into png, millions and you`re done.
Second possibility:
Pass through option inserts your original one without freeway touches it. (Remember file size in that case)
… and I think freeway does a brilliant job.
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I have read the comments about not to use .jpeg, but I don’t.
The comments about not using JPEGs probably refer to the output,
not the format you use for input. Freeway takes whatever graphic
formats you give it and produces web-safe content in JPEG, GIF or PNG
form. It will default to JPEG if it doesn’t see that the image is
already in a colour-limited format, for example something limited to
an 8-bit palette.
Your Illustrator graphics are probably being output as JPEGs, and if
they contain sharp edges and flat colours this is generally a bad
choice. Try GIF instead. Select a graphic on the page in Freeway,
click the third icon along in the Inspector palette, and change the
output format to GIF. Preview and see if this helps.
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Pass through option inserts your original one without freeway
touches it. (Remember file size in that case)
But don’t do this if the original files are native Illustrator ones! 
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why not Keith?
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I seriously doubt a browser would know what to do with a native
Illustrator file!
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…ha, that sounds more then logic
and to make matters worse
I got no bad excuse for that silly question.
Thanks for clarifying this K
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Thank you for the comments,
but wouldn’t FW make a .jpeg from the .ai or .eps?
Just to show you what I’m talking about I’ve made a quick test-page:
http://www.sheloep.nl/test/
The images were very sharp before I’ve imported them into FW. These are PNG milions… It doesn’t change at all if I choose .jpeg 100%… why is that? the text in the illustrations is fuzzy and the circle is not sharp any longer, just as it is with the text in the header…
Can you help me to get it right please?
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By the way, this is what it looks like in Dreamweaver:
http://www.sheloep.nl/klant-centraal/
But that’s not the right thing for me. I like the way FW is… but I have to solve the problem with the images to carry on using it.
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wouldn’t FW make a .jpeg from the .ai or .eps?
Yes, automatically - as long as you DON’T choose pass-through.
The images were very sharp before I’ve imported them into FW. These
are PNG milions… It doesn’t change at all if I choose .jpeg
100%… why is that?
Okay, the text in the illustrations is NOT fuzzy, not beyond the
unavoidable results of being rendered using 12 or so pixels in
height. When you look at the text in Illustrator I suspect you’re
zooming in and thinking of it larger than the final size.
This is about as good as you’ll get in small, screen-resolution type,
barring hand-rendering it with specific antialiasing settings in
Photoshop.
The ‘contaminated antialiasing’ is an odd one. That’s something I’d
put down to being JPEG or PNG not at millions of colours, but it IS
that format already. Perhaps you’ve rendered this as a web-ready
graphic before importing it to Freeway? Is the file you placed into
your Freeway page a native Illustrator document or something exported
from that in some way?
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Sometime around 28/5/10 (at 15:24 -0400) CyberDaph said:
By the way, this is what it looks like in Dreamweaver
Heh. One of the things that Freeway protects you from doing is
precisely this: squashing a 2266x1600 pixel image into a space that’s
just 550x400 pixels. The file is almost 4 times larger in size.
However, it DOES appear that you’ve hit a weakness in Freeway’s image
scaling/resampling process. It really isn’t as clean-looking as it
should be. Fortunately there’s a (relatively) simple solution: scale
the image in Photoshop to the desired pixel size, save it, and import
that instead.
You’ll still need to pick the right output format; PNG at millions
will give the best visual results, although JPEG at 90% looks good
too and is fractionally smaller. (And doesn’t need additional PNG
fixes either.)
Point to note: make sure the pixels-per-inch value in Photoshop’s
Image Size dialog is 72, or make sure you check the ‘Ignore
Resolution’ checkbox in Freeway’s import dialog.
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