Best FM image format in OSX?

[dylan]

I am going to be printing 10,000 personalised letters from FMP on a high-end postscript colour laser, via OSX.10.1.2.

I'm printing the whole letter, so I want to include inline images. These are going to be large 300dpi colour pictures.

What does FMP5.5/OSX support?

Can I use PDF (it is the replacement for PICT as the default format in OSX)? Can I use TIFF and EPS, as I would printing from Quark Xpress? Or should I stick with the widely-supported PICT?

I'm after the best image quality I can get here. If anyone's tried this, or can hazard a guess, you'd save me a heap of time trying things out.

[ January 10, 2002: Message edited by: dylan ]

[Steven H. Blackwell]

The OS X engine supports PDF. Quicktime is the graphics engine underlying the program.

Does that help?

Old Advance Man

[dylan]

Yeah, helps a bit.

What I'm basically intending to do is to cut and paste high resolution colour images into FMP. Can it handle a 300dpi image, or will it reduce my image to the 72dpi screen resolution?

Would I be better to get my pictures printed elsewhere first, and use FMP only for overprinting the personalised text?

Or can FMP handle printing 10,000 full colour personalised oversize A4 pages at 300dpi to a postscript colour laser? Each page is identical, apart from I'll be changing the text, maybe a couple pictures and some of the offers/coupons etc.

Argh, I'm not explaining this very well. I'd try it out, but don't have the printer yet, and the printer is

[Garry Claridge]

You could test by printing to a pdf, and taking it somewhere with a good printer for a look.

It should work, because FM does not change images, it just uses what you give it.

All the best.

Garry

[ January 12, 2002: Message edited by: Garry Claridge ]

[sgoethner]

Hi,

DO NOT use PDF. It will only be a low res image. Whether you choose tiff or eps depends upon the type of artwork you are reproducing and from where. Also, don't cut & paste, import!

If the image is the same on all 10,000 the way you suggested personalizing the letter after the fact, have the 10,000 preprinted the old fashioned way. It's Much cheaper. Lasers are good for custom work and short runs.

Good Luck

Steve