On Friday 27 October 2006 18:25, Plinnell wrote: > On Friday 27 October 2006 23:43, John R. Culleton wrote: > > On Friday 27 October 2006 16:30, Louis Desjardins wrote: > > > John R. Culleton a ?crit : > > > > I had no luck at all with the scribus table facility and > > > > importing a Postscript image didn't work either. So I converted > > > > the PS image to tif at 300dpi in Gimp and imported it > > > > successfully, though with some blurring of the type. > > > > > > 300 dpi is not good enough for sharp type (any vector actually). > > > You can increase the dpi if GIMP supports this. Or do the type in > > > another application if your design permits it. > > > > > > Louis > > > > > > > I used lzw compression. > > > > OK I iwll redo that insert at 600dpi. Hope my printer can handle > > the larger file. > > Hi, > > You did not indicate what created the table and generated the export. > > I think rasterizing a PS files is not going to be very satisfactory. > > Have you tried the steps as outlined here? : > http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=importhints3 > > Peter The table was laid out in TeX, actually the Context version thereof. Formerly it was included in my layout for the newsletter but I took just that section and ran it through Context separately. Then I pulled the Postscript into Gimp for a bit of cropping and conversion to tiff.
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