Hey Sara:
You have hit a pet peeve here. Spectra and vector graphics in general
should NEVER be dealt with in ANY bitmap format -- it is crazy to use
a format that is so wasteful on space and prints only at that
resolution, when you could just allow the printing process to dictate
the resolution for you. Some journals say they want TIFFs etc, but
they do NOT!! What I am saying is to use postscript or pdf!! -- that
is what the people actually doing the printing really want too.
Simply save the pdf of the files and they will print nicely at any
resolution in the publication. You can also do beautiful editing,
labeling, coloring etc in a real graphics program like Adobe
Illustrator. All this is much easier on a Mac where all graphics (to
screen and print) are in a pdf format, but it works on Windows or
Linux too.
Another advantage is file size. A 600 DPI full page figure will take
up to 50 MB as a 600 dpi TIFF, but the pdf will be only 100KB or
so!!! It will resize any way you want it to without crapping out and
will look its best on what ever printer is used. Vector graphics
rules unless you are dealing with actual art or photographs.
Cheers.
John.
On Aug 12, 2005, at 3:58 PM, Sara Basiaga wrote:
> Has anyone had success in turning 2D data from Xwin-NMR, XwinPlot,
> or Topspin into a TIFF or JPEG file with 600 dpi or greater
> resolution? One of our users wants the picture resolution to be at
> least 600 dpi for publication. The "export" option in Xwinplot is
> set to a default of 150 dpi for JPEG and 300 dpi for TIFF, which I
> was told cannot be changed. I tried using MestReC and Spinworks
> but it looks like neither of these software options export as
> picture files.
>
> Thank you very much in advance!
>
> --Sara
>
> --
> Sara Basiaga
> Assistant Director of Instrumentation
> University of Nebraska-Lincoln
> Department of Chemistry
> Lincoln, NE 68588-0304
> Phone: 402-472-3797
> Fax: 402-472-6964
>
>
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