I'm sorry, I lost the original thread on this, but I played around with Scribus and Adobe Reader 7 (on Linux, FC4).
The only way that I can make output look jaggy in AR7 is if I go to Page Display in Preferences and turn off smoothing of text, line art, and images. All I see this complex method doing as far as image quality is introducing a built-in antialiasing to the file, and in that sense it may look better, but one has to wonder if it's muddier, and if it were zoomed to 6400%, whether it would still look as good. I can zoom my output that high and antialiased edges of text still look good. The lightness of images can also be achieved by setting Scribus as if you were making PDF for print. It is good to see that one can shrink the size of a PDF by this method. Greg
