Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!lhc!ncifcrf!fcs260c2!toms From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: Publishing electronic images Message-ID: <1962@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> Date: 4 Dec 90 15:58:37 GMT References: Sender: news@ncifcrf.gov Organization: NCI Supercomputer Facility, Frederick, MD Lines: 33 In article SOFER@ANCHOR.RUTGERS.EDU (Bill Sofer) writes: >My lab uses a high resolution CCD camera to capture grey scale >images for analysis... >My problem is that such output appears to be unacceptable to >most journals. A paper of mine is now in press that has computer generated figures. If they had been photographed, then either the smooth grey background would have been destroyed, or the lettering would have been degraded. To assure that the image was exactly as I wanted it, I sent them negatives. If your output is in PostScript, then you can get your image 'typeset' at rather high resolutions (up to 2540 dots per inch!), and the image can be put directly onto negatives that the printer can use. The main thing is to check with the journal and their printer beforehand to find out what the size requirements are. On a related topic, I hope to see a growth in electronic submission; re-typesetting my paper introduced 10 times as many mistakes as it caught! If everyone submitting manuals sent them in on disk, perhaps the journals that do this will begin to see that they are still in the dark ages. >Bill Sofer >Waksman Institute >Rutgers University >Sofer@Biovax.rutgers.edu Tom Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Mathematical Biology Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 toms@ncifcrf.gov Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com