On 9/10/07, alanw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, possibly an opportunity was missed. But maybe not. > > My guess is that 97%+ of commercial printers use MACs for prepress, with > everything interpretted via Adobe PostScript. > > Getting a graphic created on windoze to print OK can be full of surprises. > I wonder if a FOSS graphic would fare any better. Ceertainly if my flyers get printed by a commercial printer, I'd like to know what happens.
The author of Scribus is justifably proud of the fact that the PDF output conforms to the Adobe specifications, and can thus be taken to any print shop without fear of problems. > Anyone having much joy with Inkscape, or Scribus My simple triptyque style flyers were made in Scribus using the Gentium font. Scribus has some 'operational oddities', but by and large it works pretty well. I reduced the size of your 'Globe with Bird' by extracting the picture as a .png file. I then reduced it to fit my 3-in-a-row layout. I think the result is ok. > (or any other layout program)? > Incidentally, the globe in 'my' SFD poster really pushed my system to the > limit. I initially thought it would be easy to PDF it, but it must have had > some tricky gradients (too many vectors?) and I had to compromise and > simplify it in the end. As posted, yor A4 poster printed perfectly on my Linux box with CUPS driving my antique HP-4mp laser printer. ( I had to set the PS level to 2, and check the 'Save printer memory' box ) Your 'globe' rendered somewhat oddly in both cases with rather obvious circlular moire patterns. If I were a snooty graphics editor in Rome or some such place, I'd have probably got my nickers in a twist, but I'm not, and do realise that 'perfection' is the arch enemy of 'perfectly good', especially when the printer in question is really very old now. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
