Importing graphics

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April 12, 2023
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Does anyone have any comments about the relative merits of importing graphics via pdf, png, gif etc.?

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Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi @mwolfthal:

I'm all about streamlining my workflow: I import photos as .psd files (native Photoshop) and line art/illustrations as .ai (native Illustrator files). I don't convert either so that I can edit the artwork in the original application.

If you are using other apps besides those two and you will need to convert your artwork, keep in mind that .gif files are limited to 256 colors total (that may exclude it from your workflow) and jpg files (developed for archiving photographs) are lossy so saving them repeatedly will cause irretrievable data loss. Png is a more modern format that you might consider, but personally, I go with pdf if I'm importing Excel charts, for example.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

mwolfthalAuthor

Inspiring

Here's an example of an image I need to import, pdf and png formats.

StructuresII-m199.pdf

frameexpert

Community Expert

If your only output is print and/or PDF, I would use PDF as the import format. This will give you good clarity of the user zooms up on the content when viewing it.