Photoshop PDF

shinyobject

I have recently joined Smugmug and I was thinking about putting together some posters to sell. I printed a sample through the printing partner Smugmug uses (I forget who off the top of my head) and it came out ok, but the text wasn't as sharp as I'd like. I expected that. It's not horrible, but the print of my Epson R2400 is certainly crisper.

Recently I learned about Photoshop PDFs and immediately their application to posters came to mind. A Photoshop PDF retains the vector info so text and other vector objects print out as crisp as possible, but the file is still a regular PDF and viewable in Acrobat Reader. So, I was wondering, do you think Smugmug will ever support this format? Seems like a natural fit. I see Smugmug as the high-end gallery/printing site and it seems like a lot of members would like this functionality.

Thanks.

Pete

Andy

shinyobject wrote:

I have recently joined Smugmug and I was thinking about putting together some posters to sell. I printed a sample through the printing partner Smugmug uses (I forget who off the top of my head) and it came out ok, but the text wasn't as sharp as I'd like. I expected that. It's not horrible, but the print of my Epson R2400 is certainly crisper.

Recently I learned about Photoshop PDFs and immediately their application to posters came to mind. A Photoshop PDF retains the vector info so text and other vector objects print out as crisp as possible, but the file is still a regular PDF and viewable in Acrobat Reader. So, I was wondering, do you think Smugmug will ever support this format? Seems like a natural fit. I see Smugmug as the high-end gallery/printing site and it seems like a lot of members would like this functionality.

Thanks.

Pete

Hi Shiny,

We'd love to, but there are no plans as of now. There are plenty of tricks you can apply in Photoshop to get the text to print better, and we can help. Make a post in Finishing School and be sure to post an example image and links. We'll be happy to help!

shinyobject

Andy wrote:

Hi Shiny,

We'd love to, but there are no plans as of now. There are plenty of tricks you can apply in Photoshop to get the text to print better, and we can help. Make a post in Finishing School and be sure to post an example image and links. We'll be happy to help!

Thanks for the lightning fast response, Andy! I'm pretty good with Photoshop, but once I get something together I'll post an example and see if anyone has any suggestions. It was just something I came across and it sounded like a perfect fit for SmugMug, and something that could be a competitive advantage without a whole lot of work.

Thanks again!

Pete

evoryware

Hello, wondering if you support printing registered pdf's at all yet?

Andy

evoryware wrote:

Hello, wondering if you support printing registered pdf's at all yet?

JPGs only, sorry