Brochure Design - can I request in TIFF format?

TheQuery said:
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I'm a novice on printing to be honest. I was hoping it wouldn't be too difficult to edit a PDF file but I obviously under estimated the task!
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There's a bit more to it than people realise - having a piece of software and a document to work on is a bit like having a nice car at a race-track but not knowing how to drive.
AlbacoreA said:
... We used to use quark for layout and illustrator was only used for doing vector graphics. Or one or two pages things like posters and the like. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong.
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XPress (or Aldus PageMaker or RagTime) for page layout / document design, Illustrator for eh well illustrations, PhotoShop for photos.
 
From distant memory registration used to be a right pain where things moved and you'd get it back from the printers slightly off. Printers were always mucking with the files.
 
Bear in mind that the original brochure was produced a few years back so the design company are entitled to charge a retrieval fee at the very least to dig out the artwork and send it across.

Even if this only takes few minutes to complete (assuming a good back-up/archiving facility), the company would have costs for digital storage/archiving etc and would be entitled to try and recover a portion of this.

Getting a Hi-Res PDF is a good result. Trying to change fonts, layout, images etc is a designers job which requires specialist software (and design experience ;) ) costing thousands of Euro so be prepared to meet obstacles when trying to do these tasks yourself.
 
To be honest it will be very difficult for you to alter the files yourself. Doing text changes in Acrobat Professional can make things shift and jump, and is difficult even if the fonts are embedded. There's also other issues in setting it up for print that you mightn't be aware of, and then the finished product wouldn't look as good as you want.

If you want to print the brochure the dpi should be 300. If its anything below then any images that are raster/bitmap (made up of colour dots) will look bad when printed.

If you needed it done cheap then maybe go to www.creativeireland.com and ask for a student/cheap freelancer to do it. You might get someone who will do it cheap for their portfolio. They can copy the design from the original brochure so the process should be quite quick.
 
Or at least someone else else would have all the hassle.

Might be easier to renegotiate the printing costs with the original company
 
Thanks for all the suggestions.
I'm going to pass it over to a third party to complete the changes. The Print company didn't charge anything for releasing the high resolution PDF so this gives me a few Euro to play around with.
 
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