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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
>
>
>
>
>
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