Dieter> > The final output is supposed to be a large piece of paper, right? What Dieter> > language(s) does the printer speak? Probably not SVG.
JRT> The printer probably speaks 'printer' unless it has PostScript built in. I haven't looked at printers lately, but IIRC many speak PostScript, many speak PCL, and many have a proprietary language, which I assume is what you mean by 'printer'. Many printers speak more than one language. I suggest finding out what language(s) the target printer speaks, and work back from there. If the printer speaks PostScript, consider creating PostScript directly. JRT> So the test is if GV will properly display the PostScript file. If someone has a non-Ghostscript implementation of PostScript (e.g. Adobe) they could see if that implementation does the same thing. It may well be that gv is displaying the PostScript file correctly, and the problem is that Inkscape isn't generating PostScript that creates the desired output. Lourens> That could be an option, to convert it to a high-res bitmap and embed=20 Lourens> that into the PDF. Not as nice, but if it works then it works. Do printers now speak pdf? If not, that is yet another conversion which can introduce problems. In my experience, pdf is VERY prone to problems, many many orders of magnitude more problematic than PostScript. I'd be wary of pdf even if the printer speaks it directly. IIRC you can embed a bitmap into PostScript. A poster size bitmap will be a very large file. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
