I’ve not noticed a significant quality loss. Depends on the
compression you chose for the elements in the PDF. Compared to
creating a PDF in the Adobe programmes Print to PDF offers little
control of that so you may have to compromise.
Presumably you are hoping to be able to resize on the fly so that you
can play around without having to resize raster files, or maybe you
just want to save the conversion step. Either way, as the end result
will be a raster file (GIF, JPEG or PNG) and Freeway will compress
the file at some stage anyway, you either control that before import
or let Freeway do it for you. In practice you’ll probably find that
the difference is negligible. If starting with a larger file than the
final size Freeway does pretty well. Upscaling is always a different
story as you know but at the end of the day a quick Save As won’t
take too much time to convert your Corel draw file to a raster format
ready to use.
Cheers
Pete
On 11 Jan 2008, at 22:54, tobiaseichner wrote:
Hi Heather,
I haven’t had the time so far to give it a closer try, but isn’t
there a quality loss when exporting vector images to PDF ?
Anyway, just noticed that Corel Draw 11 cannot save to PDF, so I
had to Print/Save-as-PDF which surely may lead to quality losses.
Presumably you are hoping to be able to resize on the fly
so that you can play around without having to resize raster
files
Yes, this was my idea It’s always quite time consuming trying to arrange vector images so that they are looking well (as you stated, you have to save them before as bitmap and then no luck to get them integrated in a different size).
Currently I work with placeholders (empty image boxes), then after arranging, write down physical dimensions, save vector image in this size, replace saved bitmap with placeholder… and so on.
Anyway, maybe Softpress will add more support for vector images in the future…
Maybe this is heretical but I’m not sure you should worry TOO much
about absolute quality when working for output on the web. It isn’t
like print where everybody sees the same thing. Viewers on the web
are looking with different browsers that render slightly differently
to each other, on screens that may or may not be calibrated, and
which may be using thousands or millions of colours with varying
contrast and brightness settings, all of which will affect the final
look.
That’s not to say you should output any old rubbish but I find
Freeway does a very good job when resizing files. So as long as you
have rasterised your original file larger than final use size you can
be fairly confident that it will look OK when published. Which means
you can use the options under Item>Graphic to fit and resize very
quickly without going through the placeholder hoop.
Cheers
Pete
On 12 Jan 2008, at 11:08, tobiaseichner wrote:
Presumably you are hoping to be able to resize on the fly
so that you can play around without having to resize raster
files
Yes, this was my idea It’s always quite time consuming trying
to arrange vector images so that they are looking well (as you
stated, you have to save them before as bitmap and then no luck to
get them integrated in a different size).
Currently I work with placeholders (empty image boxes), then after
arranging, write down physical dimensions, save vector image in
this size, replace saved bitmap with placeholder… and so on.
Anyway, maybe Softpress will add more support for vector images in
the future…
Anyway, maybe Softpress will add more support for vector images in
the future…
Well, since it already supports EPS, PDF and AI natively, I’m not
sure what else they can add to the mix.
These days, as far as Adobe are concerned at least, .ai is the same
as .pdf is the same as .ai. The leap for Freeway Pro to support PDF
and AI was an easy one, but the support of EPS files has been there
for some time.
Sometime around 11/1/08 (at 17:54 -0500) tobiaseichner said:
Hi Heather,
I haven’t had the time so far to give it a closer try, but isn’t
there a quality loss when exporting vector images to PDF ?
Nope, not unless you’re using some process that rasterises the
vectors as bitmaps. The PDF format is designed to contain vector as
well as bitmap content, so that kind of content is preserved
perfectly in the PDF file.
Of course, the final web-optimised output from Freeway would be a
bitmap, but your Corel Draw PDF export would be as good as the native
graphics in the first place.
