EPS/TIFF fading on screen & Print

[DomCronshaw]

So, I'm pretty new to Quark and have read the pertinent parts of Blatner's "Real World QuarkXPress 5" along with comments in this forum, and yet, I am still searching for answers. Using Quark 5 on WinXP.

My dilemma is two sided:

First, on-screen image quality in Quark is poor. This also translates to the print if done directly from Quark. An example of what I'm seeing is captured in this image:

http://eldiablo.flatirons.org/help/Red_White_EPS.jpg

Those bars are a solid color when viewed as the original EPS in Illustrator. Furthermore, they print just as they look on screen.

Second, when I try to circumvent the issue by exporting from Quark as an EPS and then opening in Photoshop 7, the pixelation problem is fixed, but I have similar fading problems as others in this forum. The original image was created in Illustrator as CMYK and imported into Photoshop (Rasterised) in CMYK mode, as well.

Any help would be sincerely appreciated,

Dom
Boulder, CO

 

[billdetty]

Quark 5 can't render EPS or any other PostScript to the screen directly. However, EPS files usually incorporate a 72-dpi screen preview; this is what you see in your document.

You may get a better screen preview with Koyosha's Enhance Preview XTension. Or you may not--I haven't tried it and I don't know its capabilities or limitations.

http://www.koyosha.com/xt/

You need a PostScript printer, or some kind of RIP software, to interpret the PostScript information to your printer so it can print your graphic accurately--otherwise you can only print the screen preview.

--
Bill Detty

"If you can't solve the problem, change the problem."