Thank you, Marc for the ImageMagick-hint. However, I need more info on the link between it and OOo.
Some comments inline. Marc Schwartz wrote: > "ccornell - OpenOffice.org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> [snip] >> >>> ok, that works, C. Thank you. >>> >>> However, the quality is very bad: dithered black and white only. I >>> should find something different or enhance the preview. Otherwise people >>> will prefer jpg or tif regardless how printing quality suffers. >>> >> I did a little experimenting here... try opening the original EPS file >> and just saving it again with a new with The Gimp... then re-import it >> to your document. >> >> When I checked the Preview checkbox I got a dithered image (that you >> mentioned) on my test image when it was imported. When I left the >> check box unchecked, and then imported the EPS, it showed up nicely >> (full color, no dithering). Note, this may be due to the fact I am >> using Solaris at the moment for my testing (GhostScript is installed >> here, and that may be handling showing the image on an EPS without an >> embedded preview). >> >> Anyone else care to chime in here? >> > > I am not sure what the expectations are here. > Just print logos in EPS quality while viewing them with sufficient qualtity on screen. > The EPS image previews are going to be bitmapped images, not vector > based. OO.org does not render EPS (nor does MS Office for that > matter). > Yes, I learned that. The quality is about acceptable if the preview is put to the eps file by epstool. It is unacceptable when producing the eps file with gimp. > If you are on Windows, one can use WMF/EMF images as an alternative to > EPS. These are the default vector based images on that OS. > Do you know of a good converter EPS -> WMF that retains the vector information, thus prints equal as good? > However, if you are going to use EPS, you are stuck with bitmapped > previews. You can use a higher dpi setting for the previews at the > expense of substantially increasing the image and therefore, the > overall file size. > In my case the logo quality on screen is about independent from the dpi i gave to epstool (while the file size is not). This is because a logo does not cover a big screen size if you look at a half or a full page. > Since the last version or so of OO.org, if you have ImageMagick's > 'convert', 'pstoedit' or 'gs' installed, you will get auto previews on > import. Otherwise, you will need to use something prior to import to > generate the preview, such as 'epstool'. > I installed ImageMagick. I installed OOo 2.3 preview. But I do not see any difference in behavior. EPS images without preview information do not render on screen. Is there some trick to link them? > When printing, you will of course need a PS compatible printer to get > the actual vector based EPS image printed and not the bitmapped preview. > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
