Craig Bradney schrieb: > 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 This is my opinion too, the printer should handle the rendering correctly, strictly spoken linescreening has nothing to do in a PDF file. But it was requested to have such a setting.
Best Regards, Franz Schmid
