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[Michael Traffanstead]

Don't know why I typed psd, that's the photoshop file format. You want PDF.

Ghostscript is still the best open source utility for manipulating
Postscript and PDF files. The gswrapper project on sourceforge has a
php wrapper.

Mike

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On Apr 8, 2012, at 5:46 PM, David Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK. Are their PHP library routines to support a PSD file format? Thanks!
>
> David Roth
>
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Michael Traffanstead
> <mike at thesandbenders.com> wrote:
>> And when your creating a PDF you can specify the resolution of
>> included images (which are typically embedded as a JPEG) but this
>> defeats the entire reason for using PSD.  You really want to use
>> vector PSD for printing if it's possible for your workflow.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Apr 7, 2012, at 10:10 PM, David Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've noticed that when I've take a large file graphic image, that PDF
>>> makes a smaller file out of the whole thing. I'm wondering if there is
>>> a way to tell PDF not to do that to allow the printer to munch on the
>>> higher quality image?
>>>
>>> David Roth
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Rolan Yang <rolan at omnistep.com> wrote:
>>>> On 4/6/2012 4:26 PM, David Roth wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to be able to take the output of this on a USB flash drive (or
>>>>> DVD-ROM) to a professional printer that is using 11 x 17 color laser
>>>>> printers. I want to make this as easy as possible for the printer, so
>>>>> they just open the file for printing and go, without any sort of
>>>>> adjustments or problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> What PHP graphics libraries and techniques would be best for this?
>>>>> Any tips for creating a high quality PDF file for the printer? Or
>>>>> should this be provided in another file format?
>>>>> Any tips for working with aligning with pre-cut cards? Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My vote is for an output in pdf format.
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