How do I get a high resolution pdf version of my pages document?

> Meanwhile I'm trying to read as many posts as possible for clues to ColorSync, PDFs, shadow flattening, and related matters.

The screen imaging system has supported transparency since the QuickDraw Graphics Extension in September 1994, but PostScript does not support transparency since tracking the states of anywhere up to 100 object layers in a transparency stack is memory-demanding (per John Warnock to the British Computer Society). PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript also do not support the tagged file format technology of the TrueType Specification (TrueType, Apple Advanced Typography, Microsoft OpenType) and the device profile format of the International Color Consortium (well, EPS allows a device profile to be embedded as PS%% comments, but there is no obligation for a PS interpreter to process PS%% comments, so in practice EPS is as device-dependent as PS).

For reasons best known to Adobe and Apple marketing in the 1998-2002 time frame, marketing of the message that the screen imaging system could support accessibility for colour information, character information and content information (on the relationship of the layout rendering order to the logical reading order) by supporting PostScript to PDF, and by not supporting extensions to PDF 1.4 such as XML, we all find ourselves in a pretty pickle.

If you want to pursue information on precisely where you are in the pickle, please use another passage into the Apple fora. For the information you want, go to lists.apple.com and sign up for the ColorSync Users List. Off the cuff, there are two other lists, one is the list at color.org (which is probably most interested in ICC engineering) and the other is an amalgam of lists for ISO 15930 PDF/X and ISO 19005 PDF/A which is maintained by the people in Germany who have the contracts for the heuristics Adobe Acrobat uses in automated software auditing of these rendering specifications.

> Oddly enough it was when I worked in the US that I first noticed this error. That was more than 20 years ago. Problem is that people copy each other. I did this myself when I worked at CERN - used some French words I thought existed (I'd heard them used by other English people) until my French office-colleaugue pointed out my error.

I tend to find myself wandering a bit aimlessly between UK English and US English when sorting out how to spelling 'organization,' 'colour' and much else.

Best,

Henrik

lucas.braakhuis wrote:

One can also select the option 'Save as Adobe PDF'. This then allows you to alter your pdf quality.

Provided that Adobe reader is installed, otherwise that option does not exist.

If you Print to pdf using Apple's standard PDF option that will give you the equivalent of Export to PDF "Best" option, which does not alter the resolution of images in Pages.

But if there is any transparency in the document the resolution of the transparency will be 72dpi.

This has all been covered multiple times in this thread.

Using Adobe Acrobat's Distiller simply takes Pages' pdf output (which has the low resolution transparency) turns it into a postscript file and then rerenders the file back to a pdf file again, which is utterly pointless, but some people think is actually improving matters. It is not.

All of this is readily determined with a few test files, which I did long ago.

Peter

If you want 300 ppi resolution of your (bitmap) images, they must be 300 when you insert them. For the vector parts, resolution is immaterial.

That's not hard.

downloading GraphicConverter now.

THANKS!

here's the magazine

http://www.azsal.com

Search with the keyword Abracadabra in existing threads.

You will get the infos allowing to to install and use filters delivering 300 dpi documents.

It would be really surprising to see Apple trying to push us to buy Adobe's products.

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> Henrik it is way too complicated because Apple has made it so and offered absolutely no guidance or documentation to expalin their actions. Not only that the process is buggy. I still can't get ColorSync to reliably accept name changes or changes to the settings.

I wouldn't disagree, nor would others. It is true of ColorSync as it is of TrueType (no pun intended) that the scientific inventions haven't turned into social innovations, partly because of the lack of educational effort, partly because of the lack of implementation in system level software itself.

Is Microsoft doing any better than Apple? No. Witness the fact, for instance, that the Adobe OpenType Library, like the Adobe Type 1 Library, overwrites ISO-IEC 10646-Universal Coded Character Set (UCS). With better education and better implementation, there would be no market for this sort of thing.

So, who is going to be doing the educating? Well, if you look at the country I live in, Denmark with a population of some 5.4m which is about the same as the population of city of Hamburg to the south, then Denmark lodged a Defect Report on ISO-IEC 10646:1993 because Danish Standards and the Danish Language Agency did not accept that in a connected world, universal character information cannot by definition specify character semantics without unique language and locale metainformation. If the locale for Danish were published by the Danish Language Agency, not only would it have to publish that it was wrong to start with, but the sale of non-conformant font software and non-conformant e-paper software would also stop, because endusers would understand that information input certainly does not equal information output. So what stops publication? Well, the largest corporation in Scandinavia until the mid-nineties was Østasiatisk Kompagni A/S (East Asiatic Company) which until 1994 sold Heidelberg printing presses through Heidelberg Eastern Inc from the Rockies to the Atlantic coast and until 1998 sold Heidelberg printing presses in the East Asian markets where the Adobe font model was known to be unworkable since Xerox started publishing the implications for RIP architectures of higher abstraction levels in font software and system software.

As you know, the discussion within Apple 1988-1996 led to conflict, and almost to collapse. It is not the case that US capitalists are selling poor software to EU consumers; it is the case that EU consumers are driving the demand for the supply of poor software that lacks the abstraction levels for separating the realm of colourimetry information from the realm of imageable colourant, the realm of character information from the realm of imageable composition, and the realm of layout rendering order from the realm of logical reading order. Change takes time, although sometimes it seems that the time it takes is too long -:).

/hh

> Could you give a specific concrete example of what you are referring to here?

You and I have been over this many, many times before. You can easily look up our past discussions where you will find bibliographic references and Universal Resource Identifiers.

Best,

Henrik

this is really weird.

In Apple Pages, when I went to - save as PDF, there was a pull down menu that allowed me to choose the DPI.

I chose 300 DPI, saved and sent the file

the person I sent the file to said it was only 150 DPI

I went to do it again, and that little pull down menu is gone

I cannot figure out how to change the DPI

I ended up sending them the original pieces and letting them recreate the ad, using a lower res jpeg as a template

if anyone knows what happened here, I'd really like to know

I tried these instructions

I had a hard time changing the name of the new PDF/X-3 file

it just duplicated with the word copy on the end

I typed in a new name, but it wouldn't stick

I output a PDF and then saved it as a jpeg

the jpeg is still 150 dpi

if naming were the only problem that would be fine

you failed to note that the final result was still 150 DPI

I need 300 DPI

I used the new one labeled copy

I would like to give it a better name

but, mostly, I'd like it to work

this is really a simple question that you are complicating beyond belief.

if I create a page in PAGES and output that page as a PDF, can that PDF be 300 DPI?

I am not putting an image in. I am creating a document and exporting as a PDF

then opening in Preview and saving as a JPEG

this is a simple process to get a hi res JPEG image to the printer

why is that so complicated?

that was actually quite simple and straightforward

the image resolution is determined by imported or placed images

no, your advice is good as far as saving as tiff, except that we are using email and the detail loss is seriously unnoticable. we put out a glossy magazine that looks really good and I've been using jpegs for a the last four years. tiffs are just too large. if we were working in the same office, it would be great advice. but, working from afar, this is the easiest way to go.

PDF is too large to send, as are TIFFs. as far as 150, that is what I'm trying to avoid. it's not what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to create a 300 DPI jpeg. for some reason, that seems to be impossible.

I used to use InDesign and Photoshop and all of this was very simple. this new computer doesn't have any Adobe products so, I'm using the Apple products. amazingly, I'm able to recreate the ads just as they looked in InDesign, with a bit of fenagleing. but, getting the final hi res jpeg has proven to be a challenge.

Respectfully, you are the one complicating things. Pdfs don't have a dpi setting unless they have images in them. Text and shapes are vector quantities which are resolution independent.

I see from one of your later posts that you don't even want a pdf; apparently you want a jpg (even though the pdf should probably be much smaller than the jpg). So I guess at this point you are talking about the dpi resolution you get when you use Preview to convert the vector pdf from Pages to a bitmap jpg. That has nothing to do with Pages, though.

YES! Adjust size works fiine

I was hoping to get something that would interpolate the image so I wouldn't lose to much quality

but, this does work

also, I downloaded GraphicConverter which may help me keep the quality up

but, Preview is free, and that's always nice

Jeff, you are missing some points

the ad is created in Apple Pages

I can export as a PDF

I cannot export as a JPEG

otherwise, I wouldn't need the intermediary step

I need a JPEG at 300 DPI of a document created in Pages

can you uncomplicate that for me?