Let's start at the beginning... What is the SOURCE format of this line art?
Leonard On Apr 13, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Dominic Maricic wrote: > <wasegraves <at> bellsouth.net> writes: > >> >> Dominic, >> >> I'm adding commentary here, because I don't have your previous >> messages > availabel at the moment. I expect >> Bruno is busy with other matters right now, so please don't expect >> an answer > to your (rhetorical?) >> question immediately. >> >> IMO, your issue with JPG images in PDFs is not an iText issue, so >> it should be > pursued elsewhere, perhaps in >> Acrobat user forums, or newsgroup comp.text.pdf. >> >> Your issues are well known and have been discussed at length over >> the past ten > years. IIRC, version 3.01 of >> Acrobat Reader was an early version of Reader that displayed the >> blurring > problems you've noted. Also, >> IIRC, the early versions of Reader displayed *and* printed PDFs at >> screen > resolution, i.e., 72 dpi, at the >> time. The ensuing uproar may have prompted the issuance of, again >> IIRC, v. > 3.02RA, aka Amber, which helped >> with the fuzzy printing problem, but didn't completely eliminate it. >> >> You've already been advised to avoid the use of JPG to represent >> line art and > then expect it to be rendered as >> sharply as what you would get with lossless compression >> techniques. My advice > is for you to follow the >> advice you've been given. >> >> Best regards, >> Bill Segraves > > Hi Bill, > > My question wasn't rhetorical. I've tried jpeg, gif, png and had > issues with > all. I even had the exact same distortion when trying to add a tiff > at 72 dpi. > So my question again is, when adding line art graphics via iText, > what format > and dpi should I recommend to my users? > > Bruno sent me an example with a logo I had at 450dpi jpg and it > worked well, at > 72dpi, the image needed to be converted to 110dpi which causes a > size loss. So > I'm just trying to find out what's 'best' to use. > > Thanks, > Dominic > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save > $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http:// > java.sun.com/javaone > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Do you like iText? > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > Or leave a tip: https://tipit.to/itexttipjar > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Do you like iText? Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Or leave a tip: https://tipit.to/itexttipjar