Graphics Tech Notes for Art Directors

Not much in this technical section yet (three pages linked to this one, to be exact). It will grow. Feel free to send your comments and suggestions.

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Materials currently available:

Summary List of graphic file types and their characteristics.

"Apes" explanatory sheet (PDF, about 88k):   Why do we trace raster images into vector form?

"Dogs" explanatory sheet (PDF, about 480k):   Main graphic image types -- a visual demonstration.

Warning:  The “dogs” page is a complex file. It should display correctly (although slowly) in Adobe Reader (either the standalone application or the Web browser plugin), and many people have printed it successfully to PostScript printers. However, the file displays incorrectly (typically, with all the text invisible) in Apple’s “Preview”, in “Foxit Reader” (for Firefox), and probably in other third-party PDF readers. In fact, you could probably use this file to test the ability of third-party PDF readers to render complex PDFs accurately! I’ll try to rebuild the file in a simpler form when I get the chance. (Moral: don’t create complex PDFs with many text blocks in Photoshop!)