Tim Griffiths Illustration and Digital Design

February 2005

Portable Document Format - your flexible friend

Portable Document Format (PDF) has become a ubiquitous medium for exchanging files where preserving the appearance of the document is important. Though Microsoft™ Word files are often exchanged, fonts are not passed on, and viruses can hitch a lift. The Acrobat Reader™ software is freely available, and is commonly already installed on many computers.

PDFs can come in three sorts: screen, print and press. Most people will have come across screen PDFs, they are the variety on the web for download, and are particularly compact - though photographic images only look good 'on screen'. TGIADD use the latter to show clients visuals as a project progresses. Print PDFs are usually more bulky, but still fairly compact - and photographic images will print out with greater clarity. Depending on how many images, they too can be of a size that is reasonable to download. More commonly they will be the variety that a manual will be supplied with software on a CD. People like myself will use the Press PDFs to pass files to a commercial printer for output on a press.

For more information about PDFs visit http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html.

If you want to cut your print costs by distributing material via PDF, contact TGIADD on info@tgiadd.co.uk.

Also, an illustration brochure is available in PDF for download, TGIADD Illustration (650kb).

Previous issues:

Christmas 2004 - Flash authored Christmas message : November 2004 - website usability : October 2004 - Christmas illustrations : September 2004 - illustration and animation

Contact us to see what we can do for you, whether it is illustration, general graphic design or related to your web site.

To unsubscribe from this newsletter, please email info@tgiadd.co.uk, with ‘unsubscribe’ in the subject field.

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	Tim Griffiths Illustration and Digital Design February 2005
	Portable Document Format - your flexible friend Portable Document Format (PDF) has become a ubiquitous medium for exchanging files where preserving the appearance of the document is important. Though Microsoft™ Word files are often exchanged, fonts are not passed on, and viruses can hitch a lift. The Acrobat Reader™ software is freely available, and is commonly already installed on many computers. PDFs can come in three sorts: screen, print and press. Most people will have come across screen PDFs, they are the variety on the web for download, and are particularly compact - though photographic images only look good 'on screen'. TGIADD use the latter to show clients visuals as a project progresses. Print PDFs are usually more bulky, but still fairly compact - and photographic images will print out with greater clarity. Depending on how many images, they too can be of a size that is reasonable to download. More commonly they will be the variety that a manual will be supplied with software on a CD. People like myself will use the Press PDFs to pass files to a commercial printer for output on a press. For more information about PDFs visit http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html. If you want to cut your print costs by distributing material via PDF, contact TGIADD on info@tgiadd.co.uk.
	Also, an illustration brochure is available in PDF for download, TGIADD Illustration (650kb).

	Previous issues: Christmas 2004 - Flash authored Christmas message : November 2004 - website usability : October 2004 - Christmas illustrations : September 2004 - illustration and animation
	Contact us to see what we can do for you, whether it is illustration, general graphic design or related to your web site. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, please email info@tgiadd.co.uk, with ‘unsubscribe’ in the subject field.