On Saturday 29 January 2011 15:38:47 John Culleton wrote: > On Saturday 29 January 2011 15:29:16 Barry McKenna wrote: > > On 1/29/2011 11:47 AM, John Culleton wrote: > > > With the generous help of others I put together a set of > > > samples of the same text as set by various programs, TeX, > > > Scribus, OO Writer, MSWord, InDesign and PagePlus. > > > > > > IMO TeX, InDesign and Scribus form the first tier, PagePlus > > > almost makes it and the two word processors bring up the rear. > > > I used 1.5.0 (my usual tool) for the Scribus samples. > > > > > > Download it here and make up your own list of winners and also > > > rans: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/compare.pdf > > > > John, > > > > It may be a particular Windows/Scribus/pdf issue with my > > system/HP 1018 - or not, I don't know - but the Scribus > > printed output looks distinctly different from the Tex and > > Open Writer; the same as my Scribus (1.3.9) to pdf output > > when I _don't_ "Embed PDF": The printed output looks a bit > > jagged under a loop as when the font is converted to outlines. > > > > Barry > > > > _______________________________________________ > > scribus mailing list > > scribus at lists.scribus.info > > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > It is possible that I messed up. I'll check. But the issue I am > addressing is the layout of the text, hyphenation, space between > words and the like, and not the typeface as such.
I blew those samples up in Acrobat Reader to 800% and the text was perfectly smooth. No jaggies. Try AR instead of your loupe. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/p/books/4055.html Typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
