Fwd: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens'
Can you please help my friend seeking the info below? FN -- Forwarded message -- From: Derek Cordeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/11/18 Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens' To: TUGIndia Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Nina Mazumdar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: I'm a Lyx user in Goa, and hope you won't mind me intruding. Every time I go in for a book, to be printed via offset, my printer has a problem. He takes the PDF file and attempts to do crazy things like importing it into Windows/Corel Draw, etc. He says the photos won't print because they don't have a screen. True, TeX does not add a screen to images as some of the proprietary systems like Quark, et al do. But that is not an excuse for the What extra information does an image with a screen have? Is it half-toning information or something specific to the printer? Will a higher resolution image or pdf with less compression help? Regards, Derek P.S. I don't see any visible differences in the images in pdfs generated by Quark or distiller when compared to pdflatex, which is why I wish to clarify my doubts. ___ Home:http://www.tug.org.in/ TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq unsubscribe: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tugindia -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org Blog: http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Tech links from South Asia: http://twitter.com/fn M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490
Fwd: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens'
Can you please help my friend seeking the info below? FN -- Forwarded message -- From: Derek Cordeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/11/18 Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens' To: TUGIndia Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Nina Mazumdar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: I'm a Lyx user in Goa, and hope you won't mind me intruding. Every time I go in for a book, to be printed via offset, my printer has a problem. He takes the PDF file and attempts to do crazy things like importing it into Windows/Corel Draw, etc. He says the photos won't print because they don't have a screen. True, TeX does not add a screen to images as some of the proprietary systems like Quark, et al do. But that is not an excuse for the What extra information does an image with a screen have? Is it half-toning information or something specific to the printer? Will a higher resolution image or pdf with less compression help? Regards, Derek P.S. I don't see any visible differences in the images in pdfs generated by Quark or distiller when compared to pdflatex, which is why I wish to clarify my doubts. ___ Home:http://www.tug.org.in/ TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq unsubscribe: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tugindia -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org Blog: http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Tech links from South Asia: http://twitter.com/fn M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490
Fwd: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens'
Can you please help my friend seeking the info below? FN -- Forwarded message -- From: Derek Cordeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/11/18 Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens' To: TUGIndia Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Nina Mazumdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all: >> >> I'm a Lyx user in Goa, and hope you won't mind me intruding. >> >> Every time I go in for a book, to be printed via offset, my printer >> has a problem. He takes the PDF file and attempts to do crazy things >> like importing it into Windows/Corel Draw, etc. >> >> He says the photos won't print because they don't have a screen. > > True, TeX does not add a screen to images as some of the proprietary > systems like Quark, et al do. But that is not an excuse for the What extra information does an image with a "screen" have? Is it half-toning information or something specific to the printer? Will a higher resolution image or pdf with less compression help? Regards, Derek P.S. I don't see any visible differences in the images in pdfs generated by Quark or distiller when compared to pdflatex, which is why I wish to clarify my doubts. ___ Home:http://www.tug.org.in/ TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq unsubscribe: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tugindia -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org Blog: http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Tech links from South Asia: http://twitter.com/fn M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490
