Hi Craig, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Interesting thought. I know we have trouble when clients do this, > though, because the RIP halftones the text exactly the same as the rest > of the graphic - resulting in rough, burred text. I've got away with this in the past - GhostScript doesn't halftone the text as long it really is pure black. As long as colour-matching is disabled when the resulting image is used (so pure black remains pure black) it should be OK! > I couldn't possibly guess what the effect will be at that printer, but I > wouldn't be too surprised by a similar problem. Perhaps - correct me if I'm wrong, though, but this started with the very specific requirement of someone wanting to print a Scribus-created PDF on a laser printer with a fairly coarse screen freqency for later reproduction. If a laser printer can't print a pure black/white image without halftoning it further, then either the printer or its operator is broken! > Can they print an EPS file? You could always see if GhostScript's > pdf2epsf will do the job on your file, then supply them with an EPS to > print. They could import it as a graphic into Quark or InDesign (or > PageMaker, going by how they sound) and print it from there - that > should work around the issue. If they've got PageMaker (and I think it was mentioned that they have), then they should be able to place the PDF just like any other kind of image. All the best, -- Alastair M. Robinson
