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creating logo in Word
I am trying to duplicate our company logo in Word in our letterhead--it
consists of colored squares and some verbiage, including the company name. The colored squares are easy, but I cannot figure out how to get a "picture" of the type for the company name. The type face is Adobe Garamond SemiBold, which no one else will have on their computer (either co-workers or clients), and so I currently have a GIF file with a transparent background (the name floats partially over a colored square). However, when in the form of a GIF file, the name blurs badly on screen when we make PDFs. I have not been able to find a way to make a higher-resolution JPG file with a transparent background (using Photoshop). Is there any way to take this typeface and make it some sort of Word object that won't change on someone else's computer but will keep it's sharp edges in a PDF? |
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creating logo in Word
Hello Sam
SAM HDC wrote: I am trying to duplicate our company logo in Word in our letterhead--it consists of colored squares and some verbiage, including the company name. The colored squares are easy, but I cannot figure out how to get a "picture" of the type for the company name. The type face is Adobe Garamond SemiBold, which no one else will have on their computer (either co-workers or clients), then your task has instantaneously become almost futile! Let's face it: if your "Corporate Identity" demands Adobe Garamond SemiBold, and you don't have that font, and you don't have a vector-format file of the complete logo (EPS, EMF), or a very high-resolution bitmap file (can generally be anything like TIFF, BMP, GIF), and you have no decent vector graphic tools at hand -- please have a talk with whoever gave you that task! and so I currently have a GIF file with a transparent background (the name floats partially over a colored square). However, when in the form of a GIF file, the name blurs badly on screen when we make PDFs. If it's OK while in Word, but blurry in PDF, this mostly means your PDF creation software (or its settings) are not up to the task. I have not been able to find a way to make a higher-resolution JPG file with a transparent background (using Photoshop). Forget JPEG: it presents no advantage and many disadvantages (it usually compresses with loss, great for saving size almost w/o notice when dealing with photographs, very _bad_ choice for vector graphics) for your job at hand. Is there any way to take this typeface and make it some sort of Word object that won't change on someone else's computer but will keep it's sharp edges in a PDF? See above: first check your PDF creation software and it's settings. Sounds like its downsampling your image. HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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creating logo in Word
Hi Robert -- Thanks very much for responding! We're still working on this
problem. My responses embedded below. "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote: Hello Sam SAM HDC wrote: I am trying to duplicate our company logo in Word in our letterhead--it consists of colored squares and some verbiage, including the company name. The colored squares are easy, but I cannot figure out how to get a "picture" of the type for the company name. The type face is Adobe Garamond SemiBold, which no one else will have on their computer (either co-workers or clients), then your task has instantaneously become almost futile! Let's face it: if your "Corporate Identity" demands Adobe Garamond SemiBold, and you don't have that font, and you don't have a vector-format file of the complete logo (EPS, EMF), or a very high-resolution bitmap file (can generally be anything like TIFF, BMP, GIF), and you have no decent vector graphic tools at hand -- please have a talk with whoever gave you that task! ----------------------------------------------- We're a very small company (under 20), so we gave ourselves this task :-) We have the SemiBold font, but our clients won't. We send out a lot of proposals in Word with our logo or letterhead, to other companies who then fold our info into theirs, so we are trying to make a high resolution TIFF/GIF ourselves, but with a transparent background. --------------------------------------------------------------------- and so I currently have a GIF file with a transparent background (the name floats partially over a colored square). However, when in the form of a GIF file, the name blurs badly on screen when we make PDFs. If it's OK while in Word, but blurry in PDF, this mostly means your PDF creation software (or its settings) are not up to the task. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried upping the resolution as much as I could when I made a pdf, but it didn't change anything. But I didn't do anything with the sampling options. Although... the other companies who fold in our materials will probably just use default settings to make a pdf, so we're hoping to get something that will be sharp and clear under those circumstances. (We really didn't expect it to be this hard.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I have not been able to find a way to make a higher-resolution JPG file with a transparent background (using Photoshop). Forget JPEG: it presents no advantage and many disadvantages (it usually compresses with loss, great for saving size almost w/o notice when dealing with photographs, very _bad_ choice for vector graphics) for your job at hand. ------------------------------------------------------------ Very happy to forget about JPEGs. But which other format would be best? I tried to make a TIFF in Photoshop with a transparent background, but it turned into a black square when I imported it into Word. Am in the process of asking some Photoshop people now... ---------------------------------------------------------------- Is there any way to take this typeface and make it some sort of Word object that won't change on someone else's computer but will keep it's sharp edges in a PDF? See above: first check your PDF creation software and it's settings. Sounds like its downsampling your image. HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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creating logo in Word
SAM HDC wrote:
We're a very small company (under 20), so we gave ourselves this task :-) We have the SemiBold font, but our clients won't. We send out a lot of proposals in Word with our logo or letterhead, to other companies who then fold our info into theirs, so we are trying to make a high resolution TIFF/GIF ourselves, but with a transparent background. always hard to guarantee anything out-of-house (it's hard enough in-house :-)). I'd try creating a WMF/EMF file (vector graphic information) with your logo, that might be best. Very happy to forget about JPEGs. But which other format would be best? I tried to make a TIFF in Photoshop with a transparent background, but it turned into a black square when I imported it into Word. Am in the process of asking some Photoshop people now... Yes, never wrong to ask some graphic experts. GIF can have a transparent color as well (though not too many colors, but this shouldn't be an issue), give that a shot. Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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creating logo in Word
Thanks, Robert, for your help. We'll look into some vector graphic stuff. We
figure there HAS to be a way to do this seemingly rather simple task. We've given up on trying to control color out of house, but we thought we should be able to better control a picture of plain black text... Thanks again! "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote: always hard to guarantee anything out-of-house (it's hard enough in-house :-)). I'd try creating a WMF/EMF file (vector graphic information) with your logo, that might be best. Yes, never wrong to ask some graphic experts. GIF can have a transparent color as well (though not too many colors, but this shouldn't be an issue), give that a shot. Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Buy a copy of Adobe Illustrator, and use it to autotrace the letters you want to include in the logo; turn the letters into vector art, such as eps.
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creating logo in Word
Thanks for responding--we'll keep this idea in mind as a possible solution!
"Cardlaw" wrote: Buy a copy of Adobe Illustrator, and use it to autotrace the letters you want to include in the logo; turn the letters into vector art, such as eps. -- Cardlaw |
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creating logo in Word
Cardlaw wrote:
Buy a copy of Adobe Illustrator, and use it to autotrace the letters you want to include in the logo; turn the letters into vector art, such as eps. EPS is always nice, but you need a PS printer driver (when printing through most Office apps, in any rate). Otherwise, the app is using a TIFF preview (if it's present in the EPS in the first place). 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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