There’s been a lot of chatter on the Web this past week about the impact the new iPad (with its retina display and four times the pixels) might have on digital publications like those created on Mag+ or Adobe DPS, which render most of the content as images to present a pixel-perfect design experience, since this approach creates “large” files.
There’s no question that higher resolution images take more space, but in tests with our plug-ins, we’re seeing closer to a 2x or less increase. And since most of our issues are 150-200mb, we’re only talking about retina issues of around 300-400mb— More...
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Mike Haney Digital Editions - 03/22/2012-10:32 AMThere’s been a lot of chatter on the Web this past week about the impact the new iPad (with its retina display and four times the pixels) might have on digital publications like those created on Mag+ or Adobe DPS, which render most of the content as images to present a pixel-perfect design experience, since this approach creates “large” files.
There’s no question that higher resolution images take more space, but in tests with our plug-ins, we’re seeing closer to a 2x or less increase. And since most of our issues are 150-200mb, we’re only talking about retina issues of around 300-400mb— More...