promoters, re: flyers on the events board[views:2313][posts:23]______________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 9:28am - the_reverend ""] I want to make them big enough for people to be able to print them out on their own... what size should I make them? |
| _________________________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 9:30am - the_taste_of_cigarettes ""] hard to say, but my printer does 8in x 10in to make 8.5in x 11in print outs. I print at 300dpi, 200 if it's a memory issue. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 9:35am - Joe/NotCommon ""] I also design most flyers as 8x10, 300 dpi When i post online I keep them 8x10 but go down to 72 dpi |
| _________________________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 9:36am - the_taste_of_cigarettes ""] yeah, if there was a way we didn't have to reduce dpi so drastically to get stuff up on the web I'd be stoked. like if we could make it 150 maybe |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 9:37am - Joe/NotCommon ""] Relapse has all their press kit information online at 300 dpi, logos, band photos etc |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 9:38am - the_reverend ""] hm... that would be 2550px by 3000px in jpeg terms, that's about 2.5MB. hm.. a little too big. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 9:39am - Joe/NotCommon ""] I think 150 dpi would suffice, or you could shrink the dimensions with a disclaimer about it having to be resized |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 9:40am - the_reverend ""] dpi and inches don't mean much. it's all about pixels. take a 300dpi picture and DL it with IE and it automatically shows it as 72dpi, which means it's huge. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 9:41am - Joe/NotCommon ""] You lost me |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 9:47am - the_reverend ""] 8x10inches at 300 dpi means there are 2400 pixels along one side and 3000 pixels along the other side. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 9:49am - Joe/NotCommon ""] you may not be able to do it at a good quality |
| _________________________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 9:54am - the_taste_of_cigarettes ""] if you want people to print them, I mean, would making the grayscale reduce the file size? |
| __________________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 10:14am - DreamingInExile ""] what about zipped tiff files? the zip archive will cut the file size by about 45%, and most (if not all) people have an archiving program that will open .zip files (winzip, winrar, winace, stuffit on mac will open 'em) so have a 72dpi preview image, and a zipped tiff file for printing |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 10:17am - the_reverend ""] cause, 1840px by 1225px jpeg = 1MB 1840px by 1225px tif = 6.7MB zipped = 3.7MB |
| __________________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 10:18am - DreamingInExile ""] the_reverend said:cause, 1840px by 1225px jpeg = 1MB 1840px by 1225px tif = 6.7MB zipped = 3.7MB understood... hmm, there must be a way, what about PDF's? |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 10:21am - the_reverend ""] you aren't going to get smaller than a jpeg in most cases. sometimes a gif will do it, but usually it looks like #%%# |
| __________________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 10:26am - DreamingInExile ""] Start taking donations and get a second server for rttp, lol! if I had more bandwidth, I'd offer storage on my host, but I'm limited on bw, because I'm not rich. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 10:37am - the_reverend ""] right now, I have 80GB with 1.2TB/mo but at 2.5GB/flyer.. it would fill up faster. |
| __________________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 10:42am - DreamingInExile ""] 2.5MB you mean? :-P and you can always write a routine to delete the fliers after the show has passed, or even a routine that the same IP can't grab the flier multiple times... Maybe have the flier zipped anyways, so once you grab it, you have it, insted of having it displayed in your browser window |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 12:36pm - thedeparted ""] someone mentioned pdf that would work well, except not everyone can convert to pdf as easily i should say as others. Unless rev was gonna convert everyones uploaded jpg to pdf then reload them the idea to delete them after the date is a good idea also, make it so kids cant post flyers for dates too far in advance. say no more than 2 months or even a month, so kids arent posting flyers for May 2007 also can only people who have registered post flyers? |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 1:01pm - the_reverend ""] that's how it is now. bit I think the images are shrank to 800x800 |
| _________________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 1:08pm - DreamingInExile ""] thedeparted said:someone mentioned pdf that would work well, except not everyone can convert to pdf well, if you use photoshop, you can save as a PDF. there are functions in PHP that you can use to create PDF's as well, I'm not sure on the whole process, but I know it can be done |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 1:08pm - thedeparted ""] just put a place for people to link to an offsite flyer most bands or promoters with sites prob wouldnt mind hosting the flyers themselves, i know i wouldnt mind. that should cut back a lil |
| _________________________________________ [Sep 30,2005 1:09pm - DreamingInExile ""] thedeparted said:just put a place for people to link to an offsite flyer that's a good idea too, then you can have the flier in whatever size & format you want, and it won't effect the rev's bandwidth |