On Saturday 01 October 2005 17:45, Craig Bradney wrote: > On Saturday 01 October 2005 18:42, Calum Polwart wrote: > > I wrote a newsletter about 2 months ago using Scribus (1.3). Thanks > > firstly to those who helped with my numerous issues importing SVG/EPS > > graphics to get tables in. > > > > When it eventually came back from the printers I've never been so > > ashamed in all my life. The print quality bwas appalling. From what I > > can gather they couldn't get it to print at all, and the best I can > > guess to describe how they fixed it was the copy the pages that wouldn't > > print from Acrobat as images and paste them into a new document... > > ...the result was loads of pages that looked like they'd been dot-matrix > > printed! We've been tryign to investigate what went wrong > > (unfortunately I don't deal with the printers I provide someone the file > > on CD and they deal...) and today I've been building a layer by layer > > pdf to find the problem staring with just plain text, then adding SVG's, > > lines etc... each time exporting a new pdf. > > > > I appear to have created a pdf that simply refuses to print. It opens > > fine in LinuxAcrobatReader7 - but when you print it the printer rejects > > the job. Tried two different printers -same problem. The file has a > > TIFF graphic in it. I've changed that to a JPEG of the same image and > > it works fine ... ...is this a known bug with either scribus or acrobat? > > You say you are now test printing it, on your printer? What model? Are you > sending the right PostScript level to it? Maybe the TIFF makes the job too > big for the printer? Can we get to the TIFF somewhere? or email it off > list? >
And what version of Scribus? 1.3.0? 1.3.0cvs? 1.3.1cvs? Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20051001/c9c35810/attachment.pgp
