Importing images into Pagemaker - Mac Platform

[PhilH12]

Hi,

I'm a new user of Pagemaker and am having difficulty with importing images. There are no options for aquiring a source of images. Can anyone point me in the right direction?


Phil

 

[jimoblak]

File>Place

You can also scan directly into PageMaker using TWAIN - - but you must have a TWAIN-compliant device (scanner, camera) configured for your system.

 

[PhilH12]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your reply, I have my Cannon Scanner TWAIN configured direct to Photoshop 6.0 (where I will mainly crop and touch up images - book covers mainly). Is there a way to import images that I have amended and saved as TIFF in photoshop?

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi ,PhilH12,

> Is there a way to import images that I have amended and saved as TIFF in photoshop?

No problem. File -> Place.
PM loves TIFF images.

Iechyd da! John
22:48 10/03/03 GMT

 

[jimoblak]

Doh! I missed the hyphen in File -> Place.

Sorry.

 

[PhilH12]

Thank you both and sorry 'File>Place', was dreaming! I have tried the File>Place option a number of times with Tiffs of undoubted quality and high resolution, yet the imported image when placed in Pagemaker is 'boxy' and blurred - like the pixelation has dropped down to almost nothing. I am saving images as Tiffs at 300dpi (saved in Photoshop 6.0).

Is the pixelation too high/not high enough/do I have a gash copy of the software? Help!

Phil

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, PhilH12,

I'm not as conversant with PM on a Mac as on a PC, but don't worry too much about the image on the screen. It will print fine. Try "Control + View > any view" to redraw the screen - that should sharpen the image on the screen.

The other advice is do all the sizing of your image in PhS, so that the image placed in PM does not need to be re-sized.

Iechyd da! John
02:18 11/03/03 GMT

 

[angler2229]

Phil,

If you want the graphic to look better on the screen, go to File> Preferences and select High resolution in the Graphics Display area of the box. When you print to a good postscript printer, you will get better results than printing to and inkjet.

Also try not to stretch a graphic when using File> Place. However, you can make it smaller with no problems. I try to use the cropping tool as much as possible in PM so the file size of the graphic does not increase as it sometime will whenever you make any change to its physical size in a graphics program.

If you have the choice not to save the graphic to PM, do so. The really large graphic will link to the file when it prints. A graphic placed that way will not add any size to the PM file.

Daniel