![]() ![]() I share with you exactly how this is done. Session 411 from WWDC “What’s New in Interface Builder” discussed-albeit very briefly-Xcode’s support for creating your PNG files at build time from a vectorized PDF. In this article, I want to delve into how you can do the latter, saving yourself time (and your sanity) in the process. Another piece of this technology is the ability to generate vector-based images from a PDF at build-time in Xcode 6. One piece of this is the ability to generate Storyboard-based Launch Images in Xcode 6 and iOS 8, leaving behind the notion of individual images for each device type. Even better, this is a way to prepare your apps for future iOS devices. With the introduction of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus last week, I couldn’t help but think how difficult it will be to manage yet another group of assets: assets.įortunately, Apple has provided some great tools in Xcode 6 for managing assets. All of these images make applications look attractive, but the downside is you have to generate these image files individually. When developing an app, you need icons in various sizes, Default.png images in different sizes, and also and images for each image file inside the app. Photoshop can produce a PDF directly at press quality for a printer without Illustrator or Indesign (it's in the Export / PDF / Presets) and I have done this on occasion for (foreign) printers who required a flat image file by FTP but its tedious to layout, will lose sharpness in text (especially under 10 point) and not ideal for DTP.IOS applications are an image-driven species. However, Indesign is more flexible and has better PDF integration (for pre-press). Illustrator can be used to typeset and produce a print document without Indesign (packaging industry do this as its often simple flat colour, text and icons - no bitmap). To be clear on some of the other answers (all positive in their own way): - vectors can do lots of things that you don't need in this instance (I wouldn't edit a vector in Photoshop for example so why the Smart Object?. Set additional text on the document layout. Once you are happy with the design, save the file out of Photoshop as an EPS without compression and import to Indesign. If you have built your vector well you will not see any broken edges or fuzzyness. Select CMYK and 300 dpi and a suitable size for you end document (210 x 297mm in your case) - this will ensure that the colour space, size and dpi are correct for your project. Drag this onto the Photoshop application and a dialogue box will appear. ![]() If you wish to combine your vector with a bitmap image (photo / backdrop) in Photoshop then export the vector from Illustrator as an EPS file (Save as in some versions). Indesign will accept the EPS file from Illustrator and a backdrop bitmap from Photoshop and as WillAdams suggested output as a PDF which the printer will prefer (PDF is designed for pre-press these days). Indesign is designed for print primarily and is the best option (in my experience) assuming your document has text and a bitmap image in it. Given that you're stuck with the template you purchased, that might be the better way to go at this point. When you save this as a PDF, the print dimensions will be the same, but you'll get cleaner edges on your logo than you would from a 300 ppi document.Īn alternative, better approach would be to place the PSD template into InDesign as a background, without the logo or text, then add both text and logo in InDesign. Since you're sending this to PDF, your best bet would be to increase the resolution of the PSD to 600 ppi or greater without changing its print dimensions (i.e., turn on "Resample image" in the Image Size dialog, then increase the ppi). When the PSD is saved, or output to PDF, it's the raster representation that is output, not the vector information. A Smart Object is always a raster interpretation of its contents at the same resolution as the containing document. at whatever the resolution is of the PSD. When you import a vector logo (or any other vector) as a Smart Object, Photoshop retains the vector information inside the Smart Object, but what is presented in the PSD is a raster representation of the contents of the S.O. Without seeing the actual logo it's not possible to give a definitive answer to this, but importing it as a Shape Layer or vector paths would be the best way to do it if it's a simple logo, because your PSD would then contain live vector shapes that would output cleanly to PDF. ![]()
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