I'd use ImageMagick and batch it.

On Jul 20, 2012, at 1:44 AM, Simon Wise wrote:

> On 19/07/12 22:58, András Murányi wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Hans Roels<[email protected]>  wrote:
> 
>>> I need pictures of>  300 dpi of a Pd patch to publish them in an article.
> 
>> Hi Hans,
>> 
>> The postscript files that Pd generates for me (here on Linux at least) are
>> vector-graphic, which means they have a so-to-say "infinite resolution":
>> one can zoom into them endlessly and shapes will still be perfect and
>> pixel-free. (see attached screenshot of pd-window in the foreground and
>> zoomed postscript in the background)
>> I suggest that you check that this applies to your postscript files as well
>> (take a look into them with Document Viewer in Gnome or Ghostscript on
>> Windows) and is they prove to be vector-graphic, you can simply tell the
>> editor not to worry and go ahead using them.
>> (Of course, if someone opens a postscript file with the wrong program, it
>> can look pixelated when it is actually not.)
> 
> if your editor is incapable of dealing with the postscript files and requires 
> you to generate final artwork for them as pixel graphics then you will need 
> to do that work for them. And they will need to do much better than "more 
> than 300dpi" as a spec for what format they require for artwork.
> 
> On Linux I just tested a couple of apps and Scribus seems to do a nice job of 
> importing the pd.ps files exported by Pd 0.43.1 ... allowing you to export it 
> as an image file in whatever resolution you like, in many formats ... but as 
> Miller says there is a slight difference in font size that you may need to 
> correct for in Pd if you are relying very much on font size for your layout.
> 
> Inkscape didn't cope with the pd.ps file very well at all, and the various 
> PDF viewers I have were more limited in their saving options.
> 
> On other OSes there are also plenty of choices for layout apps which will 
> read the pd.ps files properly.
> 
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Dan Wilcox
danomatika.com
robotcowboy.com




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