print looks like web
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- rasko4
so.. I need to make a bunch of web pages, but they will be printed, so.. how ot make them best look like the web? Bear in mind I am having to produce over a hundred so no photoshop, I need to crank these out.. but are there any fonts with printer fonts that I could use to say.. l look liker verdana aliased?
Any tips? suggestions? I was thinking maybe illustrator but even that seems slow.. hmmm
- madirish0
you need to create them from scratch? or printed versions of an already live site? if the latter, print off png's...
- rasko40
yes from scratch, for litho.
my thinking is to just make them in Quark as it 's the quickest way, I can dummy logos and stuff to look pixellated.
thoughts appreesh
- madirish0
gotcha.
as much as i hate Quark, a multi-page tool sounds the best. InDesign maybe?
good luck
- rasko40
yeah I would use InDesign, but I'm not really switched to that yet, whereas I am super speedy in teh Quark
- Baskerville0
take a screen shot of the website then take it into photoshop, increase the resolution from 72dpi to 300 dpi, make sure the 'resample image' box is checked.
Then (and this is the important bit) from the drop-down menu next to the check box select 'nearest neighbour' NOT 'bicubic'
Nearest Neighbour will resample the image in pixels so all the edges stay sharp and look pixel-like – which is what you want for a website being printed:
(sample at 300dpi)Bicubic will resample the image and anti alias everything so it will look blurry ie not what you want:
(sample at 300dpi)
- Dancer0
Can't you creat a style sheet for this and apply it when you go to print the page from the website? Or am I missing something?
- Dancer0
Ok sorry, I thought you were creating the website...
- Randd0
maybe just leave them hi res? so that the viewer sees them is unconsciously manipulated to think "what beautiful web pages"? Since most people don't understand the diff between screen and print res, they will wonder why the pages look so good and attribute it to your skills as a designer?
- Nairn0
I may be right off the mark here, but have a search in the PVN for 'wireframe' (a thread started by Paraselene) - some of the programs mentioned there might be suitable?
Otherwise, if the pages are roughly approximate, I'd consider knocking them out in dreamweaver, or whatever wysiwyg editor you have access to. If the pages aren't similar, this'd be pointless.
If your focus is on hi-res print quality, ignore me (if you haven't already).
- rasko40
I'm in agreement with that Rand, its a tricky one to explain, (I am not allowed to).
Baskerville thanks but I'm creating over a hundred pages from scratch.
ok.. any 'pixel' fonts that actually have printer fonts? This is not necessarily a design project, just trying to render the web as it were.. like I said .. tricky
thanks tho
- k0na_an0k0
i would have said indesign but if you're more comfortable in quark definitely use that rasko.
good luck man.
- rasko40
thanks all :)