On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 19:29, Elmar Jobs wrote: > The print shop I have to use for a flyer requests the files as Quark or > TIFF (PDF/X3 is no option).
If they have Photoshop, they can do a conversion to TIFF easily. So you can you if you have it - see below. I find it hard to imagine that a print shop would _not_ have Photoshop. > So I tried to export my Scribus work as PNG > to convert it to TIFF. The output should have 2900 pixels width (Scribus > 1.1) or 350 dpi (1.2 - great work btw). The resulting file did have the > right size but quality was obviously degraded (approx. 50-100 dpi), All > original pictures have the correct resolution. I'm seeing that as well with just-before-RC1 CVS. It looks like the text is still rendered to screen dpi rather than the target DPI of the image. I output a BMP (to make sure it wasn't a libpng related issue) at 4958 x 7017 (600dpi A4) and found that the text looked pixelated when the image was displayed any larger than the original Scribus canvas had been. In other words, the image looked fine if I scaled it to 72dpi, but at original size or if scaled to (say) 150dpi it looked pixelated and horrible. I have uploaded an extract to: http://www.postnewspapers.com.au/~craig/files/c90276d1f4c5cbea1d6aaf478e33fcf5/pixelated.bmp.bz2 This was created by: New page Create text frame Insert sample text save as image type BMP, res 600dpi open in GIMP crop small chunk save chunk bzip2 upload > Is it possible to export in high quality? How? If you have Adobe Photoshop to hand, you could always use it to rasterise the EPS and save a TIFF. Simply open the PDF in Photoshop (well, 6.x and 7.x at least) and it'll ask you what you want to do. Photoshop does an incredible job of rasterising PDFs (IMHO) and lets you control the colour space (B&W/RGB/CMYK) and resolution of the output. Unfortunately, I've never got satisfactory results from using GhostScript to rasterise PDFs to TIFF (though oddly, the JPEG output seems a fair bit better). -- Craig Ringer
