1) Do not use type styles (shortcut keys) to italicize or bold fonts. These faked styles may look fine on screen and even in laser output, but often will not work in high resolution output. Use only the italic or bold font variations that are displayed in the font menus.

2) Never copy a picture from one application and place it into a picture box via the Paste command; the pasted image will be a PICT file. Always use the get Picture/Place command (File menu) from the program you are using.

3) Do not use JPEG files. They can be imported, but they are usually low resolution and not suitable for high end output.

4) Try to avoid rotation imported images in your program. This slows output. Rotate them in their original program like Photoshop or Illustrator.

5) Try to avoid scaling imported pictures in your program. When creating pictures, whether bitmaps or vector-based, try to produce them at or near their intended size before importing them. This is especially important with bitmap TIFF and bitmap EPS files; less so with vector EPS files.

6) The background color of picture boxes should be 100% white or transparent when using either grayscale or CMYK color TIFF files.

7) Do not use hairline rules. Make your thinnest lines at least .25 points wide and your thinnest dotted rules at least .5 points wide.