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A File o File Formats

Its our goal to work with a broad scope o clients using a wide range o soware to create their work. However,with the sheer number o programs and versions available today, we obviously cant ully support every singleprogram or le ormat. In general, when considering which le ormat to use, les that support vector aregenerally a better choice, especially i your project contains text or line art.

The chart on the next page lists a wide variety o le ormats and gives inormation about each. Weve also ratedeach ormat rom ve stars to zero stars based on this scale:

These le ormats are our preerred le ormats. We routinely work with these le types andtypically have the ability to open them and easily make them press ready.

We routinely work with these le types and typically have the ability to open them and easilymake them press ready, but we occassionally experience some issues with them that makethem less than ideal choices.

These le ormats can compromise printing quality, making them less than ideal choices.

These le ormats are other good choices or proessional printing but we can accept these lesonly i they are exported as a PDF and may be limited in what we can do to solve any issues.Projects submitted in these ormats may be subject to additional ees i complex conversionsand xes are necessary.

The ollowing ormats are not recommended or proessional printing. We may be able toaccept documents created in these programs i they are converted to PDF. Many o theseormats can have signicant issues with color and resolution i images are included, but may be

good choices or text heavy projects. Extra ees may apply i extensive xes are needed.

We do not support these ormats.


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File

Format

Long Name Program Vector or

Bitmap

Rating Notes

PDF Portable DocumentFormat

Many Both Our preerred ormat

AI Adobe Illustrator Format AdobeIllustrator

MainlyVector

PSD Photoshop Document AdobePhoto-shop

Both Whenever possible, do not fattenand export as Photoshop PDF withPhotoshop editing capabilitiespreserved

IDD InDesign Document AdobeInDesign

Both

IDML InDesign Markup Language AdobeInDesign

Both Oen used to export les created oredited in newer versions o InDesign oruse in older versions

EPS Encapsulated PostScript Many Both TIF/TIFF Tagged Image File Format Many Bitmap Lossless ormat that doesnt lose

quality as badly as JPG; tend to be verylarge les

JPG/JPEG Joint Photographic ExpertsGroup

Many Bitmap Susceptible to noise issue (printninja.com/resources/noise)

PNG Portable Network Graphic

QXD QuarkXpress Document QuarkX-Press

Both

CDR CorelDraw CorelDraw MainlyVector

PMD PageMaker Document AdobePageMak-er

Both

DOC/DOCX

Microso Word Document MicrosoWord

Both

PPT/PPTX Micoso PowerPoint MicrosoPower-Point

Both

XLS/XLSX Microso Excel Workbook MicrosoExcel

Both

PUB/PUBX Microso Publisher MicrosoPublisher Both

GIF Global Intercharge Format Many Bitmap

TXT Plain Text Many N/A

RDF Rich Document Format Many Both

BMP Bitmap Format Many Bitmap






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Version 1.1, Updated Oct. 2, 2013Fixed error in vector/bitmap identication, added color coding to rating system and minor copy changes.

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