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I have to tell you a story to explain my question. It may offend some of you, I don't mean to, but that's just the way it is. Fortunately I'm not running for a spot on the Supreme Court. My best customer has grown and has hired a nice (beautiful, not that it has any bearing)young lady to handle his "graphic needs". She uses her phone for almost everything. She has a computer at work but she doesn't use it much. K asked me today for a "high quality vector pdf." file of their logo. This is not a logo at all but a collection of logos and type. It was interesting because I had sent her my work in a vector .pdf form several months ago. She thought it needed to be processed somehow into a higher quality of .pdf. Here's my question(s): 1. I thought that a vector file "is" since it is all points and arcs. How would one make it higher quality? Any size it is is still points and connecting lines. Can't get any better than that, can you? 2. I thought a .pdf file was an envelope that makes the parts usable in different graphic environments (read: programs). I've been sending .pdf files so that others can read and display the files in Word, Office, Corel, etc. Are there settings like dpi in the pdf format? 3. Does a phone display squish or modify a piece of art and render it cruder? Is this part of the problem since I am using my computer to show the artwork? I have more to say but lets leave it at that for now. Jer/Artworx
-------------------- Gerald Barlow Artworx Turlock, CA
95380 artworx@bigvalley.net Posts: 198 | From: Turlock, CA 95380, USA | Registered: Dec 2002
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PDF files can include vector images and/or raster images.
The vector images will retain their quality no matter how they are imported.
The raster images will/might lose their quality as they are enlarged.
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6712 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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As long as it was all vector to start with she should have no problem with an actual vector program....corel, adobe ill, inkscape, etc... Sounds like the program on her phone isn't capable. Convert all fonts to curves, then save as a pdf with the "editable" box checked, so it isn't read only.
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it appears that she didn't know what a vector is/was. Perhaps she thought it was a weather related thing. I believe she just repeated something a vendor asked for, something to do with feather flags and an ezup tent. She settled right down when I told her it was already a "high quality" vector file. I just asked here because technology changes so darn fast that I thought I was maybe behind the curve. the file was acceptable. Her phone does not have a vector capable program. She's just another troubled millennial.
-------------------- Gerald Barlow Artworx Turlock, CA
95380 artworx@bigvalley.net Posts: 198 | From: Turlock, CA 95380, USA | Registered: Dec 2002
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Thanks for the explanation Gerald. It seems crazy that someone hired to handle "graphics needs" didn't know the difference between file formats. Maybe her appearance was the main reason she was hired???
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
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