On Tuesday 27 March 2007 20:12, avox wrote: > > > >> 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) > > How did you produce this? Scan three images, convert those to PDF, > put PDFs into imageframes in Scribus, produce PDF?
I was given a 3 page PDF file, but I wanted to impose the pages as two pages per sheet and partially resized and cropped (with an image frame). > > Dont Do That! I knew someone would say this :-) I did not scan anything. So, the input format being PDF is out of the equation, optimal or not. Plus, Scribus allows me to import PDFs into a document and then generate a PDF from there: seems to be a valid Scribus use case. > > Bitmap images are extremely sensitive when being scaled to near 100% but > not exactly 100%. Why does it only affect printing then? Onscreen both sides look perfect, and on paper one of them looks awful. It's so different that I doubt it is only "sensitivity". Furthermore, if I print to postscript from Acrobat and convert back to PDF with ps2pdf it is fine again.... the "sentivity" vanishes. > That's why you scan at least at 400 dpi if your output is 300 dpi. > > In your case the image on the first page is probably scaled twice: once > when the PDF is placed > (likely at 99,5% or 101% or someting similar) and the second time when the > page is output. > To avoid this, use the images (tiffs?) you get directly from the scan > process and place those > in Scribus. If you need to scale, avoid percentages near 50%, 100% or 200%. > Thanks for the general advice but I think this is a bug. Don't you agree? Now, whose bug is this? I have already solved the problem. Still I am reporting this as it may be a Scribus issue. Could as well as be a bug somewhere along the cups+ghostscript path, since we have at least a report of printing w/o problems on windows. Best regards Gustavo > Scanning at a higher resolution might also help. > > /Andreas -- Angulo S?lido - Tecnologias de Informa??o http://angulosolido.pt
