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Re: How to Resize GIFs in Webworks Professional 2003 for Framemaker

Subject: Re: How to Resize GIFs in Webworks Professional 2003 for Framemaker
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 06:55:04 -0500

egorlow -at- hotmail -dot- com wrote:

If there a way to change the size of GIF files, so that they do not have
the Webworks default DPI?

[snip]

Any reasonable suggestions are welcome.


Reasonable suggestion: Never resize GIFs.

GIF is pretty much a final-stage format for an image. That is, you
should do your rescaling in a format that handles it more gracefully.
The workflow using Photoshop is this, assuming the only image you have
available to you is a GIF:

1. Open the GIF in Photoshop.

2. Change the color mode from Indexed to RGB.

3. Resize the image.

4. Save the image as a PSD if you are going to use it for additional
purposes (optional step).

5. Save the image as a TIFF if you are going to be using it in print or
PDF, or as a GIF if you are using it only online.

If you have the option of acquiring the image in the first place in a
different format, though, that's the better course of action. TIFF is
your best choice for most purposes.

Dick




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