Dear Scribus users and developpers, I would like to do a photo book for an online photo lab. Since the user interface of this lab (photoweb.fr) is not really convenient (limited layout possibilities, slow web interface), I tried to do it with Scribus. Once it's done (in fact I have already finished), I will export it to jpeg images, upload it and put one jpeg per page, and then my book will arrive at my home. My book is simple: on each of the 100 pages, black blackground, one to four images (from my 8 megapixel camera) with a slim white frame
As some people said before, using high-res images in Scribus is really very memory-consuming (my process is between 2 and 3Gb heavy!), but it's not my main problem for today. I am using version 1.3.3.11 (ubuntu 8.04) on a AMD64, 2Gb of memory. I am also trying to use a version I compiled from the HEAD of the svn to get around my problems. So, in version 1.3.3.11, when I export my pages to images (jpeg or png), I get some aliasing. I cannot see it if I display the pages at their actual paper size on my screen, but if I display it at 100%, I can see it. Maybe it will be visible on the book, maybe not, but I would not like to take the risk (money is money). I could generate higher resolution images and scale them down. Drawbacks: - more manipulation could give useless loss of quality - uses a lot of memory and disk space If I export to a SVG and render it to an image (with rsvg or the gimp), it looks fine. Drawback: - I can only export one page at a time, so I would have to use my developer skills to do it for all the pages - Not user-friendly Then I tried with the latest SVN version. The aliasing problem was gone! But now, the black of the background is not black anymore. It's: - 0-9-14-91 (?CMYK) - 22-20-19 (RGB) So if anyone could help me to solve one of these two problems, it would be great: - how to get around the aliasing in 1.3.3.11 in the image export - how to make the black be black in 1.3.5 SVN Cheers, Fabien
