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Old 10-03-2003, 12:36 PM   BLURY FONTS Post #11
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One thing to keep in mind is that if you are working with true type fonts that they will not always look crisp on screen, but they will print to the highest resolution of the printer because they are vectors deep down at their core. Unless you rasterize them, they will scale nicely but not always display correctly. This is true to a degree of other font types, but they take a little more knowledge of the formatting.

Often if you bump your dpi up too high you will get a muddier picture. This is more of an issue with screen printing, but I've seen it happen with desktop printers too. Also, if you bump up too high the file size can get out of hand on larger images (or if you go nuts with the dpi). This will cause the spooling not to work correctly or go unbearably slowly without any added visual benefit.

300 dpi like you're suggesting mr. keeper sir, should be fine, but about the most I would try on an injet. You might go a tad higher on a laser or dyesub if your source warrented it. I just like to point out that caveat since people always seem to think that more is always better. A lot of times they'll hear someone knowledgable tell them to "increase the resolution" and think "okay, lets try 2000dpi". Man if I had a dime for every time... hehe anyway. I like to stay in the 150-250 range for most desktop inkjet printing, unless you're working with specialty photo gloss paper, then I might jump up to 300-350. Most inkjet printers only have a linescreen of like 85.

One other thing that would impact this specific document that I thought about while I was typing this is that it's got a dark gradient and dark type. So the antialiasing has less gradiation to move through to try to smooth things. That plus the thin serif font are probably just making some visual mud. Just for argument's sake, try looking at those fonts over a white background. Just disable the visibility of the gradient layer and see if they look any clearer. Just a thought.
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Old 10-03-2003, 02:41 PM   BLURY FONTS Post #12
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... but for me - the bloody maximalist it is still not perfect.
Um, Catwalk, a maximalist is:
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One who advocates direct or radical action to secure a social or political goal in its entirety: ?the maximalists... who want the undivided land? (Dictionary.com).
That is the ONLY definition for that word.

What on earth does that have to do with how "perfect" a design is?

Do you possibly mean "perfectionist?"
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Old 10-03-2003, 02:55 PM   BLURY FONTS Post #13
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hehe, aaa madster... yes i think the word "perfectionist" WAS intended. 8}
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Old 10-03-2003, 06:22 PM   BLURY FONTS Post #14
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Perfection is the greatest degree of quality, aka maximum.
So in a rounnnnnnnnnnnnnnnndddddd about sort of way, the english language justifies his use of the term.

Actually not really.
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Old 10-06-2003, 03:49 PM   BLURY FONTS Post #15
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Default Mea maxima culpa...

Yeah, fine, I was meaning perfectionist. And I'm really glad to hear that this was the first mistake you noticed in my English

Now let's check your vocalbulary in Hungarian, German, or Spanish... hehe [righton]

I'm still struggling with the stupid letters, but I think I can see the end of the tunnel by now. I will let you know if there's any improvement made.

Cheers. /Feel free to correct my English anytime.../

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Old 10-07-2003, 02:37 PM   BLURY FONTS Post #16
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Here's a shot of a dvd case cover I made from scratch. The images are screen captures from the movie and the main title text on the back of the case was done using 'selections'.



The rest of the text is Times New Roman and I rasterized some to 'scale' it.

This is a reduced size image. The actual size is 1239x800 at 72 pixels per inch resolution.

My cover printed to the correct size (using A4 paper size) and looks crisp...but then, I need glasses to read... [shhh]
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Old 10-08-2003, 01:03 AM   BLURY FONTS Post #17
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You usually want to not rasterize to scale fonts as they will maintain their quality better as a font than as a raster graphic.

As for the design. Most of it looks good. The back text needs more "breathing room". Also, the picture on the front doesn't really blend as well with the bottom and it also is crowded by the credit titles. Try this in maybe sepia tone, I think that would bring out more feeling. Otherwise, the composition and compositing look good.

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Old 10-15-2003, 09:01 AM   BLURY FONTS Post #18
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[righton] Very nice design work Doc!

I do agree with MindBender about the "crowding" issue though...
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Old 10-16-2003, 01:22 AM   BLURY FONTS Post #19
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Thanks for the critique and kind words... my goal was to try to emulate a 'professional' dvd movie case label which tends to be very 'busy'.

The text I rasterized was for the cast names on the back cover. If you've noticed on most movie covers, that font tends to be very narrow. I have been unable to find any fonts comparable as yet and tried to replicate it by scaling. I think my next attempt will be to start with larger text before I scale it narrower...I can alway reduce the overall size to drag onto my label from there.

Hopefully, spacing, ie: crowding, will be improved on my next cover.

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