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Hi Carl thanks for the reply. Yes, another great approach I'm looking at too. Strange how the old fashioned mail can come around again. I think both are useful and effective. As opposed to the equivalent cold telephone call, which by the same modern standards is possibly vastly outdated. In...

This, http://life-longlearner.com/how-to-cold-email-prospects/ is also pretty interesting regarding this topic. :)

Where do people stand on this? I mean emailing specific people you have targeted at a given company a very polite, concise email detailing what your services can do for them. Together with showing examples/links to portfolios. All housed in a nicely put together HTML email. RATHER than a...

Yeah JPEG sounds like the best bet, my work is relatively dense. Another thought, in one guide to doing this someone says to make your images CMYK before placing in Indesign. In the possibility they get printed out I suppose. Do you use RGB or CMYK for these things?

Also, do you use jpegs or tiffs (or something else) when placing images into indesign for this sort of thing?

Brilliant, thanks for the links Hank, very interesting. And yeah, unfortunately I don't have any sort of vector work at all which is a shame in this instance ;) It's not strictly intended for print, but as Paul touched on, it likely won't be printed out by these people. It's the compromise...

Thanks for the replies. Paul, that's another consideration I've had with pdf vs website. My website is now exactly as I want it and displays all the work, in my opinion, very nicely. The PDF is simply for sending out for illustration/design representation, it just seems the best thing to...

Hi, I searched the forum for this and all over the internet in fact, but there's nothing really clear cut. I'm looking for information on what people do/recommend for sending out PDF portfolios by email. In terms of illustration, graphic design or whatever your area is would be interesting...