On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 04:40:08PM -0400, John Culleton wrote: > On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 04:25:50 pm Ted Powell wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 04:11:05PM -0400, John Culleton wrote: > > > On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 09:24:58 am Gregory Pittman wrote: > > > [...] > > > My favorite printer wants 300 dpi for photos and 600 dpi for line art. > > > > FWIW, my HP CLJ 2605dn does up to 1200x1200 black and 600x600 colour, > > and it's a quite modestly priced machine. > > Printed text is in some form of vector format. To reproduce it crisply > requires much higher dpi when it is rasterized late in the prepress > processing. For commercial printers 2500+ is common. The reason your desktop > printer has the ability to print 1200 x 1200 is for text, not illos.
The logo I wanted to include in my document was in a vector format, SVG, but Scribus didn't seem to want to deal with it, so I rasterized it as a 600x600 PNG. Is there some better way I could have handled this? -- Ted Powell <ted at psg.com> http://psg.com/~ted/ The best way to get to know a system is to tinker with it. --leb
