Hello,
I designed a brochure in gimp with several picture and text levels / layers.
Then I combined all pictures and texts to one layer and exported it to pdf. I
sent the pdf to the printing company for printing. The print was not in a
perfect quality. The printing company told us that they no
Hello,
I designed a brochure in gimp with several picture and text levels / layers.
Then I combined all pictures and texts to one layer and exported it to pdf. I
sent the pdf to the printing company for printing. The print was not in a
perfect quality. The printing company told us that they norm
On 2019-05-03 9:00 a.m., Uwe Sassnowski wrote:
But then all texts are changed in format. I can create pictures from the
text layers. But then I and the printing company cannot go into the text
anymore.
If the single layer PDF you generated had the right look to text outputting
a multi-layer ve
Hi!
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 10:07 PM Uwe Sassnowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I designed a brochure in gimp with several picture and text levels /
> layers. Then I combined all pictures and texts to one layer and exported it
> to pdf. I sent the pdf to the printing company for printing. The print was
>
john and uwe,
here, here. i agree whole-heartedly. gimp is a raster (pixel) based program
while inkscape is a vector (number) based program which produces "smooth"
outlines. scribus is a page layout program that handles the job of
combining raster images, vector images and text into a neat package
Hello Jehan and Dwain,
I thank you very much for your helpful answeres! All this makes realy
sense. I now started to work with Scribus. To be honest I had some
program crashes (I think because of my unknowingness in the first steps
:)) and some color fields are difficult to design. But all in all
uwe, et. al.,
one final thought. your commercial printer can help you work more
proficiently with them, all you have to do is ask. be sure to subscribe to
the scribus mailing list. there is an active community of users along with
the developers ready to help resolve design problems with accurate ho
You are using the wrong tool, Gimp is only a raster graphics editor. If
you have a lot of text, use a typesetting application such as Scribus,
and keep Gimp to edit the images. Then the PDF/PS from Scribus will keep
the text information.
On 5/3/19 2:56 PM, Uwe Sassnowski wrote:
Hello,
I designed
Hi Uwe,
I am not familiar with Scribus. But if you create a pdf there could be
a problem:
Please take care that the text in your script is marked "black" and NOT
"automatically".
If text is "black" only the black toner / ink is used. "Automatically"
means that
black is mixed together with cmy
hi konrad,
2 euros a page for a manuscript isn't so bad. what would the price have
been if the printer used four colors instead of one? were there any color
images (photos, graphs, etc)? if there were color images as well as text
set to black, then the color increased the price and also caused a do
Am 19.05.2019 um 19:18 schrieb Konrad Bauersachs:
Hi Dwain,
my only intention for printing was to have a "first sight" on a
printout of my script to make layout corretions,
not to get a first-class product on high qualitiy paper. (not on a
115g / m² paper :-)
I told my printer beforehand wha
Hi Dwain,
my only intention for printing was to have a "first sight" on a printout
of my script to make layout corretions,
not to get a first-class product on high qualitiy paper. (not on a 115g
/ m² paper :-)
I told my printer beforehand what I'm wanting but he finally surprised
me with with
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