On Monday 16 January 2006 22:34, [KS] wrote: > Craig Bradney wrote: > > PNGs are perfectly fine to use, in general. > > > > Craig > > Thats exactly what the documentation said and seems logical as png > uses a lossless compression algorithm. > > /kds > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
I wrote the docs, and my thinking is guided by the following: Tiff is one of the most time tested and most recognized image file formats for prepress. GIMP, the image editor 90% of Scribus users will be using for their editing in my testing and experience is very reliable in TIFF export. In fact for 1.3.x, I actually prefer native PSD. Franz has done a simply brilliant job of making the color management and all the extra features of PSD accessible in a way not even other layout apps can do. This includes supporting paths, layering and more. Why, I downplayed jpeg ? I was trying to avoid the typical unknowing user unfamiliar with pre-press grabbing 72 dpi jpegs from a web page, lobbing them in doc then complaining it looks good on the screen and prints crap. Moreover, a certain type of jpeg called progressive is pure poison in postscript printing. It is not always obvious if a jpeg is progressive or not when opened locally. Scribus now will refuse to load progressive jpegs in both 1.2.x and 1.3.x Yes, you can use high quality jpegs in Scribus. I personally do not choose it, but for the broad range of users with Scribus, using tiff is sound advice and I stand by it. Peter -------------- 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/20060117/cd67d144/attachment.pgp
