[lug] Gimp CMYK

[jd]

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 13:03, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 13:01, jd wrote:
> > I spoke to the people at the print house. He is telling me
> > that any text in my picture will look bad because it will not be saved
> > in vector format. So with this and the whole CMYK issue... i regret to
> > say Im looking at using photoslop and quark.  I guess photoslop 6 and
> > above will safe text in vector format but they suggest just using
> > quark..
> 
> Find another printer - he's wrong.  If you make the image large enough
> then the text won't look bad.  I've done it.  He probably said that
> because that's all he's used to working with.  As long as the image is
> the right scale initially - and no scaling is required immediately prior
> to printing - then you won't have a problem.

thanks again. Nice having a GIMP master on the list :)

jd