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Phone: 413-624-3204
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Peggy H. Davis Calligraphy is producing a library of computer images with Jewish content. Volume I is currently available in MacPaint, TIFF and PICT formats for Macintosh computers, and in .PCX format for PCs. Volume II is available in a larger variety of formats including EPS for both Macintosh and PC platforms. Send your name & address on a postcard or by email to request information about future volumes.
We invite you to take a look at some of the images included in Jewish Graphics for the Computer below, and our guide to image formats for advice on choosing a format.
The images in the display above show on your screen at 50% of the actual resolution. They were colored in Adobe Photoshop for this display. Below is an example of the actual resolution of the images on volume I.
Please see our guide to image formats for information on how to get the best looking images in your documents. See below for information on Jewish Graphics volume II which comes in a variety of formats which are designed to give you the highest possible quality when printed with your hardware and software combinations.
The images on volume II come in black, greyscale and white. They were placed in an Adobe Photoshop document and colored for this display.
The images in the display above show on your screen at screen resolution. If you get a high resolution version of volume II, you can enlarge the images or print them on high resolution imagesetters and still have smooth lines as in the example below.
Peggy H. Davis Calligraphy
Adamsville Road
Colrain, MA 01340
413-624-3204
Volume I:
Volume II:
If you buy both volumes I and II, deduct $10 from the total price.
Now available on CD ROM for Mac or PC, $50 for all the images of volumes 1 and 2 in TIFF and/or eps formats.
Internet Special: Tell us you saw Jewish Graphics on our Web Page and we'll pay the shipping charges (U.S. only).
Please do not send credit card information over the internet.
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It is best to choose the image format that gives the highest resolution possible (dots per inch or dpi) for the equipment and software that you will use to view and print your images. The highest resolution images are Post-Script images, (eps format) because rather than being made of dots, they are formated as outlines with smooth edges that look good no matter how much they are enlarged, or no matter how high the resolution of your printer or imagesetter.
Our post-script images come either in plain Adobe Illustrator format, or with built in previews. If you have the Adobe Illustrator program, you will be able to edit the images, for example, change colors, distort the shapes, pick some elements out of a picture and add elements of your own.
If you have Pagemaker, Quark Express, or other page layout program (as well as some high-end word processors), you can place post-script images in the documents- such as books and newsletters- that you publish. Check your programs manual to see if Post-scirpt images are supported. However, you must use the post-script with preview images or your page layout program will not be able to import the pictures. Post-script (eps) files of our images are available for both PC and Macintosh computers. Be sure to get the preview versions if you do not have Adobe Illustrator on your computer.
Our images are compatible with version 3.0 and later for Macintoshes and 4.0 and later for PCs. Compatibility with earlier versions is available on request. A few of our Post-script images are not editable with Adobe Illustrator. This is because they have texture that would be lost if formatted as outlines. These images cannot be directly opened by Adobe Illustrator but can be placed into other Adobe Illustrator documents with the Place command in the file menu. They can be imported into page layout programs the same as any other post-script image.
The other images formats we have are TIFF or PICT (for the Macintosh), .BMP and .PCX (for PCs with Windows or DOS) greyscale or bitmapped black and white dot images. This means that every picture is made up of dots which are either black or white or a shade of grey. The higher the resolution (dots per inch or dpi) the better, more hand drawn and less "computer like" the image will look.
PC Windows users please note: BMP images take up a larger amount of disk space for the same resolution as PCX files. Therefore in order to offer BMP images we need twice as many disks as for PCX to give you the same number of images, and we have had to change
the greyscale images to halftones for BMP making a lower quality image for the very few files that have greys. If you have a Windows program that will let you use PCX, or if you can use EPS files with your programs, you will find those solutions more economical.
Our images in their original sizes are 300 dots per inch. They will look good when printed with laser printers, and you can resize them within reason: they will still look good unless you enlarge them more than 200%. Most word processors and page layout programs that can place images in a document can use these types of images.
You can use many brands of "paint" programs on both the PC and the Macintosh to edit or change these images. One drawback of this type of image is that White areas surrounding an image are not transparent, so placing two images close together may obscure part of one image.
Some of you with older Macintosh computers and the oldest versions of word processor or page layout programs can only use MacPaint format images. (Newer versions can use them too.) MacPaint images are low resolution (72dpi), and they cannot be larger than 8" x 10". To make our MacPaint format images look as good as possible, we have enlarged them as much as possible to fit within the maximum size. Most of them are large enough so that when you place them in a document, you can reduce their size so that they will look less "dotty."
For best results, you will want to make your reductions match the resolution of your printer. Divide 72 by the resolution of your printer and multiply by 100 for the ideal percent reduction. You can get accpetable results with half or twice that reduction also. So, if you have a 144 dpi Imagewriter, you can reduce a MacPaint image to 50% or 25%. If you have a 300 dpi laser printer, 48%, 24% or 12% will work best. If your printer is 360 dpi, then a 40%, 20% or 10% reduction will look best. If you follow these guidelines, reducing an enlarged MacPaint image to 24% or 20%, depending on your printer resolution, will look as good as a PICT image of the same size.
Because of the maximum size limit on MacPaint files, some of our larger, more intricate images and images containing shades of grey will not look as good in MacPaint format as they would in the PICT versions. The consolation is that since white areas in MacPaint images are transparent, the images can be placed close together without the white area of one covering the dark area of another. Also, because MacPaint files take up less disk space all of the images in this set fit on one disk. So if you can live with lower resolution or smaller images, MacPaint format is less expensive.
You can use the original MacPaint as well as many brands of "paint" programs on the Macintosh to edit or change these images. Remember that resizing an image with the Shift key held down keeps the height and width proportional, no matter what type of image or Macintosh program you use.
To use MacPaint or PICT images in word-processing programs that cannot open or place MacPaint files directly, open the image with MacPaint or another brand of paint program and copy the image or images to the Macintosh Scrapbook. Then open your word-processor document, go to the Scrapbook, copy your image and paste it into your document.