Well after a little research I'm using the import command from Imagemagick. I'm grabbing screen shots at 1200 dpi. Prints are still a little off. Way better quality then before but still not good enough. The files I'm working with are about 30-50 mb in size when converted to 300dpi, 4" x 1" - 1.5". Printing directly from Scribus seems to help a little also.
Thanks for the help thus far, Dan On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 15:59 +1000, rcook at pcug.org.au wrote: > > On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:58:45 -0600 > > Matt Gushee <matt at gushee.net> wrote: > > > >> though if you could rig your PrintScreen key to dump to a > >> file instead of the printer, that might work. > > > > The way to do that would possibly be to set your default printer to > > cups-PDF, > > then try it. > > > Well I went and took a screen shot with the Gimp, on my system this turned > out close to 100dpi each way, though not exactly. > > http://members.pcug.org.au/~rcook/scribus/opendocux100dpi.jpg (61 Kbs) > > Then in the Gimp, I did an image rescale, 300dpi each way and increased > the width and height by 3 times > > http://members.pcug.org.au/~rcook/scribus/opendocux300dpi.jpg (202 Kbytes) > > Next I took my camera, a 3 Megapixel canon and took a shot of the screen > and cut the relevant bit out here > > http://members.pcug.org.au/~rcook/scribus/opendocuCamera.jpg (295 Kbytes) > > An lastly I put them all into a Scribus document and made a pdf > > http://members.pcug.org.au/~rcook/scribus/screenshots.pdf (602KBytes) > > Taking photos of screens with a camera needs a bit of work, but as far as > I can tell, the original 100dpi screenshot out of the Gimp is as good as > anything else > > > > > Owen > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
