Graphic design help?
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OK, so this is in fact wedding-related, but I need the benefit of your wisdom in an area that isn't really specific to weddings. Namely, we're trying to get invitations custom-printed. We have a scan of a beautiful line drawing by
hatam_soferet, and we're trying to combine it with text saying "Jack and Liv request the pleasure of your company etc". The printing-company have asked for a 1:1 scale PDF; however, I'm completely unable to create such a file without everything ending up horribly pixellated. Do you have any good suggestions for how to do this?
Things I have tried:
Things I could try - which do you think would be most likely to work?:
Also, does anyone know a better font than Italianno? I'm looking for something calligraphy-ish, but a reasonably legible Italic style rather than a very swirly copperplate or anything very loopy or elaborate. Italianno is about right aesthetically but I don't really like its numbers, and there are a few minor infelicities in the way the letters combine.
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Things I have tried:
- Combining text and image in Open Office's equivalent of Powerpoint, Impress, then export to PDF. This leads to really awful resolution.
- Combining text and image in Photoshop (albeit and old version, I'm only up to PS5), then saving as PDF. This leads to a PDF with pretty bad resolution, which is also much bigger, in physical dimensions, than the original 1:1 scale image I saved.
- Saving the Photoshop file as
.png
(with the intention to ask the printers if they can cope with other graphic formats). At low res this gives a poor quality image, at high res this gives a (physically, I don't care about file-size) huge image.
Things I could try - which do you think would be most likely to work?:
- Fiddle with the image dimensions and resolution until I get something that magically comes out 1:1 when I change the file format.
- Ask the artist to rescan the line drawing into a format more suited to line drawings than jpg.
- Send the text and image to a friend who has more suitable software for this task. Any volunteers?
- Download some software that's better at making PDFs out of line-art than what I have. I'm willing to pay a few tens of pounds for this because it could be useful for work as well as personal stuff; I'm not willing to buy anything on the scale of Adobe Illustrator!
Also, does anyone know a better font than Italianno? I'm looking for something calligraphy-ish, but a reasonably legible Italic style rather than a very swirly copperplate or anything very loopy or elaborate. Italianno is about right aesthetically but I don't really like its numbers, and there are a few minor infelicities in the way the letters combine.