Gustavo Homem wrote: > On Tuesday 27 March 2007 19:03, John Beale wrote: > >> > I generated this PDF with Scribus: >> > http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/problem.pdf >> > and although it opens fine on Adobe Reader, whenever I try to print it >> > result is half a page of pixelated content, along with a perfect half... >> >> Adobe Acrobat 7 for Windows XP reports the above PDF document is 16.5 x >> 11.7" in size, and it is just a lossy-compressed bitmap, without vector or >> font info. Is that what you intended? Is this your original layout or was >> > > Yes, this is intended. > > >> this scanned in from an existing print? I only have a US letter-sized >> > > Precisely. > > >> printer (8.5 x 11 inches) but for what it is worth, when asked to print >> just page 1, Acrobat 7 did print out the first page correctly (the one that >> is shown pixellized in your PNG example) >> > > Thanks for the info. We need to see if this is a Linux/Ghostscript related > issue only. > > This was tested on two printers with the same Linux version, and we got the > pixelized result on both. > I am beginning to see. I think you need to scan such a document at higher resolution to get the type to print clean. At least use 1200 x 1200 pixels.
frank
