What format should I ‘save as’ my brochure template?
I’m designing a brochure for my spa center using an open source program, but I don’t know the appropriate format to save my finished template. I’ve tried saving it in jpeg format and it turned out to be all messed up with blurry colors and lost much of the fine details, so I’m wondering what could be the best format to ‘save as’ the template so that i can send it to the printing agency without worrying about print quality.
The program allows saving a file in many popular formats like pdf, eps etc.
Any additional advice will be highly appreciated.
Thank you for your help.
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JPEG, EPS, BMP, TIFF, etc. reflect a picture (graphic) file. Not sure of the program you used, but that could be the problem - graphics programs don't usually handle text all that well. Usually for a brochure or a flyer you would use a desktop publishing program line InDesign (or whatever the opensource equivalent is) rather than PhotoShop, because of the way files are handled. Try as a PDF or alk t your printing agency to see if they can make any recommendations on the output format.
Save as a PDF...almost all printers can work with that today. You might also save in whatever other formats are available with the application and email all of them to the printer. Let him decide what works best.