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1. Re: Best way to work with .png files for print
BobLevine Jun 5, 2012 10:59 AM (in response to 1106design)The best thing to do with screen shots is nothing.
2 megs? Why exactly is that a problem?
Bob
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2. Re: Best way to work with .png files for print
1106design Jun 5, 2012 11:18 AM (in response to BobLevine)Bob, if you mean screen shots shouldn't be used at all, I agree, but that's not an option. ;-)
If a one page sample is 2 megs, that means the book file will be 200 megs. It's just clumsy all around to deal with a file that large, so I was hoping someone here would know something I don't.
So what's the best way to process these files? :-)
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3. Re: Best way to work with .png files for print
BobLevine Jun 5, 2012 11:34 AM (in response to 1106design)That’s not what I mean at all…I mean what ever they are, they are. Just place them and be done with it.
There is nothing you can do with them in Photoshop that will make them better.
And you are incorrect…the fact that one page document is 2 megs does not mean the full document will 200. Graphics are linked, not embedded, by default.
Do not embed them.
I’m going to move this thread to the InDesign forum.
Bob
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4. Re: Best way to work with .png files for print
BobLevine Jun 5, 2012 11:34 AM (in response to BobLevine)Moved to ID forum.
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5. Re: Best way to work with .png files for print
P Spier Jun 5, 2012 12:26 PM (in response to 1106design)In line with what Bob has just said, the basic overhead for a completely blank .indd file is nearly two megs, If I remember correctly.
I just looked at sizes foor a 112 page book I did a few years ago, it has 44 linked .psd files that total 611 mb, but the .oindd is only slightly over 13 mb in size. Another file, 267 pages with hundreds of grayscale photos that's one chapter in a larger book is a bit under 19 mb.


