Imported / Placed Images - Even MORE Mishagoss!

["Dov Isaacs" <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Further clarification (of course):

>From what I can best tell, FrameMaker under Windows (and
hopefully also the versions on other platforms) as well as
the Microsoft Office programs are fairly good about not
resampling non-EPS image formats during output to the
PostScript driver. GDI and the driver under Windows 2000
seem not to do any resampling of such image data, either.
In the case of FrameMaker, this is even true when you scale
a non-EPS image within FrameMaker. The number of pixels are
not increased or decreased.

There are some applications that do resample on the way
out to GDI and the driver. Lotus WordPro (the former
AmiPro) for example, does do resampling (and sometimes
screws it up on the way to the driver). WordPerfect 10
(from WordPerfect Office 2002) seems to totally barf-up
the creation of PostScript image data somehow.

It is also true that FrameMaker and the combination of
GDI and the driver under Windows will convert grayscale
images to 8-bit indexed RGB color and CMYK images to regular
24-bit RGB color.

Thus, disregarding the high quality interpolation flag
feature of Photoshop EPS, there are still good reasons to
use EPS to avoid any possibility of applications mucking
around with the image, less likely with pixel resampling,
more likely color munging!

	- Dov


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