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I am working on a book that hopefully will be published soon. The book will have hundreds of music graphics. The music software can export graphics as PDFs, TIFFS, PNGs, and SVGs. 

Publisher was crashing often about halfway through the book when I used PDF as the graphic format. It was suggested I move the graphic to TIFF format, which I did. But I am wondering about using SVG.

Ultimately, I will export the file as PDF for printing. As such, is there really a difference between using SVG vs. TIFF?

 

Thanks in advance,

Robby 

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Welcome to the forum @ArthurLawrence

Which app are you exporting the music graphics from?

One of the most noticeable features would be the overall file size of the exported graphics, TIFF files will be a larger file size than SVG, but TIFF is a lossless format uncompressed and used in publishing because of the quality, SVG is more for web use and uses compression to get the file size down. 

I would export to TIFF and SVG and compare the results, I dare bet a publisher would tell you to use TIFF.

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Like @firstdefence
said, I would test also. Tiff is raster  image —in some app only the preview is used for display and real data like vectors are used for exporting the file—, so a tiff preview in APub could be lighter that a full vector format like SVG.

But in the past I had a project with only vectors and text and APub was terribly slow (and it keep on on my computer with 350 pages book of text with few images...)

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The most important difference between TIFF and SVG is that TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is a pixel image file format and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) a vector graphics format. So tiff- images consist of pixels while svg consist of vector data. TIFF strength is the high colour-reliability, it supports colour profiles in a verry sophisticated way. The strength of SVGs is that they can be scaled without a loss of quality - edges will always stay sharp.

For areal and linear graphics I would recommend SVG. I made good experiences with it in Publisher so far. For photos and paintings TIFFs would be the best choice.

Edit: SVG isn't reaally made for web. The Internet Explorer didn't support it until lately.

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If "music graphics" is notation images ♫ I would prefer to stay with vector graphics. Pixel images (excluding 1-bit graphics) tend to print halftoned which may be fuzzier when printed than pixel images.

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Notation Fonts do not play nice with  applications other than the one they were designed for.

I am probably the fellow who suggested TIFFs. I do so knowing that the debate about vectors vs rasters would occur. If my reading of this is correct then this document is going to printed, on paper. Ink on paper is like raster images, it is nothing at all like vectors. The statement "Publisher was crashing often..." is far more important than the ability to scale/zoom in on a vector of a doted half note. 

I do believe that for a printed product high resolution TIFFs of the score will be fine. 

Most important is that the Publisher document gets finished. If the fonts in the SVGs or PDFs are causing crashes then use TIFFs or PNGs, just not JPEGs.

Music fonts are right royal pains. They will cause problems.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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