The total report itself can be no larger than 1 MB, it ca be several pages long and there are often some larger, intense graphics and graphs - the restructured logo is only a part of it. All we do is import the image to Photoshop and use the magic wand to make the "white box" transparent, do a little micro clean up and re apply the text in InDesign if needed. They then need to approve the quality of the image, it is at no cost to them and a little extra advertising. The cabinet manufacture doesn't want to spend $$$ for that but is delighted with the publicity - they send along whatever jpeg or GIF or whatever they have. ![]() This is not high end presentation, just a courtesy to our client's clients in a small matter - don't want to mention the industry, but imagine a contractor who wants to include a cabinet manufacturers "co-logo" on a client presentation. Since the ultimate dimensions of the logo are small (about an inch or inch and a half), they usually look pretty decent. Indeed, as you say, Photoshop rasterizes the type, so we match the font and using the original as a template, recreate the fonts. Well, glad you said what you did, we agree, it is VERY uncomfortable doing anything with anyone else's artwork and we were VERY reluctant to do it. This is not the "white box" but "ghost of white box" from what I understand. Does anyone have any other ideas? Checked for spot colors. We have flattened and not flattened transparency. We have made the file smaller using Docuement, PDF Optimizer, and Preview's reduce file size mode. They use Acrobat 8 Standard on a PC, we use Mac Leopard or Tiger and print from Acrobat 9, Adobe Reader 7.1, and Mac Preview - all look fine at whatever resolution. Strangely it looks better lowest res opened in Reader. So far I see no problem on the screen, printing to our office Epson, or Kinko's Xerox but on a Canon MP730, apparently (we have not seen it since our client is in another city and we do all our work on line) there is a ghosting around the logo that sounds like stitching. They have asked us to reduce the file size to under a MB. The reports are up to 4 pages with a lot of graphics and as pdf's range from 1.8MB to 3.5MB, and print well. They are exported as pdf's on the way to who knows how many printers - from desktops, to whatever they have at Kinko's to prepress. They send us the logo (the format and quality varies a lot) and we put it into Photoshop and create a transparent background so it can be placed, as a psd in InDesign on a cover with an image already present Apart from some resolution issues related to the original image, these have not been a problem. ![]() Hope this is the right place - we use CS3 and are working with a client who offers reports to several of their clients and sometimes offers custom logos.
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