Importing JPG into Pagemaker 7 Problem

[pogop]

Hello All,

I wonder if someone can help me with a problem that has come of out the blue.

I am using PM7 on a W2K machine, everytime i try and import a jpg into a page all i get is a jpg marker and the image file name instead of the image itself.

i have de/re-installed pm7 to no avail.

Nothing has changed on the machine ( no windows updates etc...) i just cant work oout why all of a sudden it has decied to do this.

Any help would be grealy appreicated.

thanks in advance
pogop

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, pogop,

Is the image on a local drive, not a network drive?

Is the JPG a "progressive"? Try resaving the JPG as Standard.

And while you have PS open, convert the JPG to TIFF - PM prefers TIFFs.

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[BodesMan]

Or try re-saving your jpgs as tiffs or eps files

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[Eggles]

Why would you resave a JPG as an EPS? The EPS format should be used only for vector graphics, otherwise it is a waste of time. A raster image saved as an EPS is a TIF with a further (unnecessary) wrapper.

 

[BodesMan]

Why would you resave a JPG as an EPS? The EPS format should be used only for vector graphics, otherwise it is a waste of time."

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If you have a clipping path in a photoshop file - you need to save the file out as a eps file in order for the the clipping path to take. Saving as a tiff file the clipping path will not work - unless you have Quark then you can use the clipping function in Quark. Also if you save out your file as a monotone, duotone, tritone, or a quadtone - you have to save out the file as a eps file, because certain layout applications will not hold a spot color by just colorizing a grayscale tiff. Photoshop does not give you the option to save monotones, dutones, etc.. out as tiff files as well.

So it is a necessary wrapper for certain workflows.

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[Eggles]

Yes, it is necessary if you have used a duotone, but it is not necessary if you have used a clipping path. A photoshop file with a clipping path can be saved as a TIF and will work perfectly well in Pagemaker and InDesign. However, the original poster was using a JPG so it is unlikely there was any clipping path involved. That's why I suggested saving as an EPS would be a waste of time, and a TIF would be the way to go.

 

[pogop]

Well after weeks and weeks of wondering what it is ive solved it..all of the profiles stored on the machine had some how been corupted....i have re-created the profiles and hey presto!! everything works like a dream.

Thank you very much for you time and your replies.

regards
pogop.

 

[quilt]

I am trying to export a one page PageMaker file as a PDF file with a simple TIF graphic. I have tried it both in PageMaker 7 and 6.5. I have Adobe Acrobat 3.0. Running Windows XP. My computer keeps locking up, even though this worked fine in the past with 6.5. In 7 it prints the page, even though I don't want the page printed, gives me the message "could not print the postscript file" (even though it just printed it) but it never creates a pdf file. Sometimes it locks up. In 6.5 it locks up before it gets as far as printing anything. I've tried printing the file to disk as a postscript file so I could then export it as a PDF but that just locks up my computer. I can't figure out what is wrong and am wondering if this has happened to any of you? If so, advice will be welcomed.

 

[BionicJohn]

When you create your PDF, you do not say which version of Distiller are you using - it could be 3, 4 or 5 from the info you give.

I suggest you install the latst version from your PM7 Application CD-ROM, which should be Distiller 5, and works OK on WinXP. I have my doubts about Distiller 3 and 4 on WinXP.

Make sure you have installed the Distiller5 PPD into PM's PPD folder.

More details at:

http://www.johndavies.mersinet.co.uk/exportpdf/installdistiller.htm

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[Eggles]

>>I've tried printing the file to disk as a postscript file so I could then export it as a PDF <<

If you are trying to export a postscript file, this shows a lack of understanding on how to create PDFs. To make a PDF from a PM file you must first make a postscript file, which is then distilled. It can be done as a two-step operation, separating creation of the postscript file from the PDF OR it can be done in an (apparently) single step by exporting to PDF. I say 'apparently', because in PM, the same two steps are still occuring (PM->postscript->PDF).

So you either:

(1) File>Print: print to file after choosing a postscript printer, which creates a postscript file. The postscript file is then distilled after opening it in Distiller.

(2) File>Export: export directly to PDF