Re: TIFF/IT files.
@ Virkram,
dude, like are you for real - on an adobe PDF forum, you really think you can get away with saying such things ?
-- like - what are you talking about here ?
--- "TIFF/IT-p1 format DOES yield better reproduction than watered down PDFx1" - what on earth does water down mean anyway ?
And why would I want to convert a page that is 2mbs average to 38 MBS - what is the benefit ?
Also, you can't overcome the fact that all images need to be upsampled and downsampled to a single, common resolution -- If I have two 300 ppi images place in an InDesign document, each with a different reduction and different rotation in that InDesign document, and I send that to a RIP that renders that at 2400 ppi for a platesetter -- 100% of the time a CT/LW work must always convert both images to a common resolution and 100% of the time that resolution is downsampled and degraded.
Takes some clocks, watches and bicycle images, apply rotation and scaling - then compare plates made from CT/LW to the the PDF > to > Marking Engine resolution of 2400 ppi.
NOT EVEN IN THE SAME BALLPARK.
want to prove it to yourself - buy this --
http://www.myresometer.com/page/page/4250032.htm
This is precisely why every single prepress vendor -- and the big consumable companies AGFA, Fuji Dupont and Kodak -- moved away from Scitex/Rampage intermediate resolution compromised approaches in 1998. CT / LW was designed to reduce the amount of RAM required for imaging - invented by the military in Israel for mapping, later licenced in the 60's for Textile imaging - Scientific Textiles (Later SciTex) first used LW on e 1000 HP computers that has BOARDS that were 12 x 15 inches and contain 64k of RAM - that is not a typo - 64 K of ram on a 12x12 board. Our 500Mb winchester drives were the size of a washing machine.
When I arrived at AGFA in 1998, the the US sold RamPage with its CT/LW for SPEED - but later, when we compare photomicrographs of PDF pages RIPPED to 2400 ppi to any CT/LW plate and you can see the difference. We used these to sell into shops that had Sctiex systems like over 10 years ago !
you can't come close to this quality with CT/LW.
but i will take a hit off what you are smokin' - must be really good !
Peace !
Michael "you asked for it!" Jahn
Shameless PDF fan boy and koolaid drinker.