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<blockquote data-quote="Gargoyle" data-source="post: 554897" data-attributes="member: 529">We're really just beginners at this as well, so I'll defer to the more experienced PDF guys like Ambient.&nbsp;&nbsp; But I will say that what we have learned is that using Word 2000 and printing to the Acrobat Distiller to create a PDF works fine for us, and may be where you want to start.&nbsp; We also use Macromedia Fireworks (which I highly recommend) to manipulate images before inserting them into Word.Note that we stay away from fancy layouts and borders because we've found that it takes time away from game design and playtesting and most PDF customers don't like their ink cartridges drained by such things anyway.&nbsp; But if you're&nbsp; making a PDF that is more decorative, there are better programs to use than Word that will give you more professional results; we know MS Word very well, so we're leveraging those skills so that we can get on with publishing.&nbsp; We've also learned to sample our art at 144 dpi.&nbsp; It seems to be a good balance of print and screen quality vs file size.&nbsp; And we've played with the amount of compression that Distiller does to keep the quality up and the file size down; I recommend experimenting.There was another thread on this subject some time ago that may help:<a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=32599" target="_blank">http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=32599</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gargoyle, post: 554897, member: 529"] We're really just beginners at this as well, so I'll defer to the more experienced PDF guys like Ambient. But I will say that what we have learned is that using Word 2000 and printing to the Acrobat Distiller to create a PDF works fine for us, and may be where you want to start. We also use Macromedia Fireworks (which I highly recommend) to manipulate images before inserting them into Word. Note that we stay away from fancy layouts and borders because we've found that it takes time away from game design and playtesting and most PDF customers don't like their ink cartridges drained by such things anyway. But if you're making a PDF that is more decorative, there are better programs to use than Word that will give you more professional results; we know MS Word very well, so we're leveraging those skills so that we can get on with publishing. We've also learned to sample our art at 144 dpi. It seems to be a good balance of print and screen quality vs file size. And we've played with the amount of compression that Distiller does to keep the quality up and the file size down; I recommend experimenting. There was another thread on this subject some time ago that may help: [url]http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32599[/url] [/QUOTE]

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