GCM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Portable Document Format, Adobe Creative Suite, Quarkxpress

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Graphic Communications
• Course: GCM 110
• Professor: Diana Brown

Document Summary

Gcm 110 - week 3 - september 28, 2015. Prepress operator makes the files ready for a printing device. Ai adobe illustrator: for illustrations, unlimited colours, file size dependent on file complexity, resolution independent; vector image. Psd adobe photoshop document: for photographs, larger file sizes; more colour information than illustrator, bitmap image; raster based. Indd adobe indesign: for bringing together illustrations, photos, and text, links to all resources for small file size. Qxd quarkxpress: was once the standard before adobe released the creative suite. Pdf portable document format: print-ready pdf, device-independent, global file standard. Tiff tagged image file format: high resolution printing images, raster images, lossless compression, not for mobile devices, computers. Eps encapsulated post script: typically used for adobe illustrator, high resolution printing illustrations, contains both bitmap and vector images. Raw: typically comes from a high resolution camera (ex. a dslr, typically filtered through photo editing programs.