On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 19:00, Alastair M. Robinson wrote: > 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!
And why Franz spent plenty of time on getting linescreen options built INTO Scribus PDF export... Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040722/ef6589a8/attachment.pgp
