...share (mac) quark files w/ win users?

[silverwhisper]

quick question for those who deal w/ this a lot:

my client's art department has graphics we need to see. the files were created using quark but my colleagues, who all use windows, need to get their eyeballs on the files.

for various reasons, JPG is not a satisfactory file format due to loss of color fidelity--these are marketing pieces. i've been informed that's true of PDFs as well. is there an acceptable alternative?

ed

 

[Weird Harold]

for various reasons, JPG is not a satisfactory file format due to loss of color fidelity--these are marketing pieces. i've been informed that's true of PDFs as well. is there an acceptable alternative?

Adobe Photoshop is a lossless image format that can be manipulated on both MAC and PC.

If it's just a matter of viewing the images, BMP is a lossless format that most image processing programs can convert their native format to. BMP format is uncompressed, so the files will be huge, but unless Quark exceeds the color fidelity of Windows "True Color" mode (65 Million colors) BMP format can replicate the color fidelity you need.

Actually, you're going to run into more problems with the differences between monitors than you are with the difference in file formats when it comes to "color fidelity."

 

[silverwhisper]

harold, many thanks for your, as always, prompt and thorough answer on a technical question!

i considered BMPs and will suggest that. i'm less concerned re: file sizes as i believe we can get a FTP situation going.

thanks again!

ed

 

[Weird Harold]

harold, many thanks for your, as always, prompt and thorough answer on a technical question!

i considered BMPs and will suggest that. i'm less concerned re: file sizes as i believe we can get a FTP situation going.

thanks again!

ed

If others are worried about file sizes, WinZip uses a lossless file compression algorithm that works well on BMP format images (in many cases a zipped BMP is as small, or smaller, than the same image converted to JPeg despite the extra header information in a Zipfile.)