Logo Creation

[Flairbrusher]

Hi, I just wanted to ask a question related to the creation of my logo, and address the recent technological advances in pre-press.
I am combining a piece of art with a modified typeface for the name of the book, with the art (a piece which was originally rasterized, but traced over in Adobe Illustrator CS2 with the pen, pencil and brush tools).
If you refer to Kevin Tinsley's Digital Prepress for comic books, Chapter 4, on page 68, it tells you that an object with too many anchor points can cause post script errors. Is this still a problem with todays versions of Illustrator?(this book was written in 1999) Do today's output programs compensate for this problem? And is there a way around this, like flattening layers?
I appreciate whatever help you can offer.
http://www.anthonyhochrein.com

[Jason Arthur]

If you send high res flatten tif files to your printer then it won't be a problem.

Most of the pre-press stuff only applies if you're sending eps files to a pre-press person and THEY are putting the artwork into your file.

With the connection speeds on computers and internet nowadays though you should probably just work right on the high res artwork and assemble it all yourself. I usually do.

Let me know (via PM or email) if you need more help and I'll see what I can do to help you.

cheers,

-- J

[Flairbrusher]

Thank you so much. There is so much information to absorb that it can become extremely confusing if there is no one to guide you through it. Hopefully I can have this work posted soon enough. http://www.anthonyhochrein.com

[mythic]

FYI - The number of points only applies to vector artwork -

For a while with postscript 1 and 2 there were a finite number of points you could print in an Illustrator doc -and no more than 256 colors in one vector image - that has all changed with Postscript 3 which allows an infinite number of points -

[Flairbrusher]

Thanks, Mythic.
I hate to admit my fledgeling status as a comic book letterer, but I'm learning my way around the software being used to produce the books. I know that it's all come a long way from the time that Mr. Tinsley's book was originally produced (which needs a current revision). I was getting all ready to learn Quark when I found that Indesign is the current tool. What a world...