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[Mike Lake]

Dave Gibson wrote....
> drawings(as opposed to photos), you really need >1200dpi to get 
> professionalmagazine-quality reproduction.  Ive come unstuck a 
.....
> *avoid* bit-map graphics -
> keep everything in vector form as far as you can.

I agree. The earlier suggestion by someone to use eps would be good.
Its vector based, suitable for line drawing (unlike JPEG), and fully
scalable. It also is not big as PostScript compresses very well.
And you can turn eps into png, gif etc with The Gimp or ImageMagick or
Adobe Photo$hop.

> This is a digression, but to illustrate the point...
> Magazine publishers (or, at least, the ones that know what they are
> doing) go spare if you send them a photo at, say 300dpi, with text
.....
> And, slightly more to the point, I have heard that the editor of 
> Descentgets a bit weary of people sending him bit-mapped cave 
> surveys that are of a totally inadequate resolution!

Ah tell me about it !!!! :-(
I edit the Journal of the Royal Society of NSW and am always getting
from Authors bloody diagrams at 300dpi embedded in MS Word docs. They
dont read the submission guidelines!

Best wishes
Mike
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Michael Lake
Active caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.
Safety Convenor, Australian Speleological Federation
Owner, Speleonics (Australia)
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