Kite Lau wrote: > ? 2006-04-25?? 14:50 +0200?Sebastian R?der??? > >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to prepare a digital passphoto for printing in an online printing >> show. The photo is 6x4,5cm with 300dpi. I have to arrange it on a 10x15cm >> with 4 times the photo on each sheet. No problem so far with Scribus (I >> didn't manage this task in krita however, cause I was not able to define a >> layer by "real" size + resolution instead of pixel size). >> >> Now when it comes to export to jpg or png I selected 100%quality >> (compression, >> right?) and 300dpi. However the result is completely unsharp and pixelish. >> Did I do something wrong? I exported to pdf and it looks OK but the file is >> only ~400kb so this might not be the best way to go (and the photo printing >> services don't accept pdf anyway). >> >> The information menu for the image boxes in Scribus says 300dpi both for >> native and current resolution. >> >> I am using scribus-1.3.3.1 on Gentoo Linux >> >> Any help would be apprecheated - would be nice if you could CC me cause I do >> not get the list atm. Thanks in advance! >> > As what I learned from this list, export to jpg or png is a bad idea for > output. Maybe you should export it to pdf or eps and then convert the > pdf or eps to tif or png within Gimp or Photoshop if you really need > this. > If you need at the end a browser-suitable picture, it's probably not worth involving Scribus at all. Gimp can do all of this without involving Scribus.
Greg
