"file has invalid data" ????

[Guest_imported]

My kingdom for an answer:
Anyone want to tell me why a JPEG I can open and manipulate in PhotoShop would be rejected by PageMaker? The image is color, CMYK, 300 dpi, and pretty large. I can't place it in a PageMaker document - gives me the error "file has invalid data." Makes no sense to me that I can open the file just fine in PhotoShop but not place it in PageMaker. Pulling out my hair. Help?

 

[carlow]

Hi


Jpeg is not a good format for placement in Pagemaker. Tiff or EPS are the formats that are the most suitable to place in a Pagemaker file.

Anyway Jpeg is a compression method and a lot of the data who originally in the picture are lost by the compression. And if you're picture has to be outputted to a high resolution printer and it is in clolour often the printout is not in clolour but in grey.

Hope this explains it.

grillhouse

 

[zefir]

Grillhouse is right about the quality.
"Progressive JPEGs" and "CMYK JPEGs"
cannot be opened in PM.
--G.Hoffmann