Which of the following factors would cause you to rule out the use of a particular illustration in an ...?

Question

electronic document?

A. the illustrations lines are thin and light, indicating that it will reproduce poorly.
B. the illustration exists on paper rather than in computer format.
C. the original illustration is to large to fit in to the space available in your document.
D. the illustration is copyright-free or in the public domain.

Answer 1

None of the above would specifically rule out the use of an illustration, though A would be the most likely but it is possible to edit an image to thicken the lines, perhaps.

B could easily be scanned
C could be arranged easily in an electronic document by either reducing the size or by having a separate window for it (Wikipedia does this often with their illustrations)
D would be a positive feature, I would have thought.

Answer 2

None of the above.

(I would think that reason (d) is a good reason TO USE it; it saves you from paying the artist / artist's rep / stock house a commission. Very few really decent illustrations are public domain; and if you need something 'customised' then it does involve commissioning someone to do it for you.)

If you are contemplating using an illustration in, e.g. a .pdf file, website, etc, and the current medium is paper, then it is still quite easy to 'fix' the problems of thin lines and resizing.

This will involve scanning the illustration at a decent resolution (300-720 dpi), then importing it into one of two Adobe programs: Illustrator or Streamline. The objective is the same: to get the original ink / pencil etc. work into vector image format. Streamline does it in seconds; Illustrator needs a skilled computer artist but will give you a much more precise result.

The resulting vector image, being a vector image, can be made huge or tiny, as you wish, without 'breaking up' or losing its sharpness.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

All those problems are fixable so its not clear what the 'correct' answer is.
A ) You could import to graphics editing software via a scanner, select the lines and add a stroke to thicken them.
B) You could scan the document to import it.
C) You could re-size the document.
D) Have you typed that correctly? If the image IS copywrite free or public domain there are no restrictions for use; so no good reason to reject it. But if the image is NOT copywrite free, you shouldn't use it.

If its not D I'd go for A because thats the biggest problem without Photoshop.

Answer 4

D -I guess, all the other things can be fixed or changed.