I used a similar flag on an HP laser printer some 4 years ago when InDesign produced very complex PDFs that taxed the printer's internal memory. In other words, I used the setting only when the source file was too complex. Under most circumstances this produces worse results unless the source file is a bitmap. I'm also sure not all printers have it. We have two HP printers at work, none of them have the flag.
>From a brief informal survey conducted among my acquaintances, the most popular PDF readers are Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat (pirated, no doubt), and Foxit[1] reader (I don't know it because I use Linux). [1] http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/ On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:50 PM, GianLuca Sarto <glsarto at tiscali.it> wrote: > Peter Nermander wrote: >>>> >>>> To be more precise, these images are inserted in a box, automatically >>>> scaled, but when they are printed, they print at lower resolution and >>>> so you only see a corner of the image in the box, on paper. >>>> >> >> >>> >>> - which version of scribus are you using? on which platform? >>> >> >> I am not really sure from the original post that the printing is done >> from Scribus. >> >> If the problems is with printing the PDF, the most important question >> is: With what PDF viewer? >> >> The only 100% reliable PDF viewer is Adobe Reader. >> >> /Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> scribus mailing list >> scribus at lists.scribus.info >> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> > > thank all of You for your kind replies! > > Further investigations found that is the "print as image" flag in the > printer driver that makes a difference: > > Reader ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? : print as image : result > Adobe Reader 9 Win ? ? : no ? ? ? ? ? ? : OK > Adobe Reader 9 Win ? ? : yes ? ? ? ? ? ?: cannot print doc error > Docucom PDF plus 9 Win : no ? ? ? ? ? ? : WRONG RESOLUTION > Docucom PDF Plus 9 Win : Y/300dpi ? ? ? : OK > Ubuntu Adobe Reader ? ?: no ? ? ? ? ? ? : OK > Ubuntu Adobe Reader ? ?: yes ? ? ? ? ? ?: cannot print doc error > > > We are a bit concerned that a random setting of this flag will prevent some > customers from printing our catalogue, or it will be printed as garbage! > > I'd be interested to learn what does this flag mean, anyway... > > again, thank you very much for your support, > -GianLuca > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100119/d5b7bb5c/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- Branko Vukeli? http://foxbunny.tumblr.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/16889956 at N04/ http://www.twitter.com/foxbunny http://github.com/foxbunny
