Because lower resolution doesn't print as well. Better print quality means higher bitmap resolution.
----- Original Message ----- From: John Jason Jordan<mailto:johnxj at comcast.net> To: scribus at lists.scribus.info<mailto:scribus at lists.scribus.info> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [scribus] Scribus PDF Error On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:09:34 -0600 Mike Sleger <chappa-ai at msn.com<mailto:chappa-ai at msn.com>> dijo: >Scribus PDF export just doesn't seem to like large images. My TIF >image is 5100 x 6599 at 600 dpi (96.2 MB) and looks fine, prints fine >from Scribus. Export bombs. Resaving the .tif doesn't fix the >problem. BMP isn't supported, so that format is out. GIF requires >indexed color and this is a true-color image, so that format is out. >Changing to PNG format (12.0 MB) also bombs on export. Just for >kicks, tried JPG (14.9 MB) and export again bombed. Tried XPM format >(105 MB and resolution changed to 72 dpi so PreFlight warns for image >resolution less than 144 dpi) and export still bombed. Conclusion: >1.3.3.14 doesn't handle images greater than some particular maximum >size (unless there's some trick that I'm not aware of for getting this >to work). Why do you need the image to be 600 dpi? _______________________________________________ scribus mailing list scribus at lists.scribus.info<mailto:scribus at lists.scribus.info> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus<http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100402/8597e6f5/attachment.htm>
