[softwarelist] Re: Importing TIFFs into OPW

Clive Bonsall wrote:

"All illustrations, either as CRC (line figures),
prints/transparencies (photographs) or as digital images. If you're
submitting the images digitally then they should be saved at a
minimum resolution of 1200 dpi for line figs/300 dpi for photographs,
when saved at the size at which they'll be reproduced in the book. TIFF or EPS files, please."
In this case I found that my computer (Athlon 2600+, 1GB memory)
couldn't even manage to save 1200dpi TIFFs of some of the
illustrations (those that included grey tones) -- 800dpi was its
limit. Yet this is what many publishers are asking for.

It's worth noting that an illustration that includes grey tones is *by definition* not a line figure because it is not pure black/pure white: it will therefore have to be reproduced as a half-tone (with a screen). So a mere 300 dpi would have sufficed for these.

Bruce



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