Distributing a poster

looksee

I would be grateful for any help with this:

I have made an A4 information sheet/poster in Photoshop and have so far saved it as a jpg and also as a large photoshop pdf. I want to send it to one person who is not very computer savvy and will want to (desktop) print it, and also I want to send it by email to other people.

What would be the most suitable formats for accessibility and size for these two uses?

Thanks for your advice!

Kenny Logins

PDF. That's what the format was created for.

maringo

Have you got Acrobat Professional - if so you can create various size versions of your poster. If not the below might be of use. Also Primo PDF (free) is good as you can generate various quality sizes both for professional print purposes and home printing and also light ones for web use.

havent used below but might be useful if you havent Acrobat Prof.
PDF Compressor is a free program you can download for Windows XP/Vista/7/8 that lets you quickly and effectively reduce the size of one or many PDF files.

Flatten you layers in photoshop then lower your dpi in photoshop to 72 for your email version and save it as a pdf or jpg

Kenny Logins

maringo wrote: »

Have you got Acrobat Professional - if so you can create various size versions of your poster. If not the below might be of use. Also Primo PDF (free) is good as you can generate various quality sizes both for professional print purposes and home printing and also light ones for web use.

havent used below but might be useful if you havent Acrobat Prof.
PDF Compressor is a free program you can download for Windows XP/Vista/7/8 that lets you quickly and effectively reduce the size of one or many PDF files.

Flatten you layers in photoshop then lower your dpi in photoshop to 72 for your email version and save it as a pdf or jpg

Photoshop can export PDFs with vector clipping paths for sharp text, flattening to 72dpi will kill that and give poor quality prints.

maringo

Yep the 72 dpi version just suitable for viewing.

looksee

Thanks all, yes I will go with the pdf, i was trying to decide between quark and word for making the document, and word is driving me mad, so I will try quark and a pdf.

Kenny Logins

Both Inkscape and Scribus are free (open source) and produce decent PDFs.