On 14/10/11 11:12, David Schieferdecker wrote:
Hello everybody,
I've got an urgent problem and I hope the solution is very easy and just
not visible for me yet. I am a dilletant in graphic design and
lay-outing, however, the first task for my new boss is to design three
A1-poster for a conference. I did it in OOImpress 3.2 as this is the
only grapic software I've at least a little bit of experience. The
creation went very well and I was surprised how easy it works. When I
tried to export the file as a png-file I've got a bad surprise, as the
result was not as sharp as in OOImpress, rather very blurry.
OOImpress less sharp than OOImpress ??
So I searched the internet for a solution, but just found that thread
(http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4499). I've spent nearly
an hour reading that, but unfortunately I wasn't able to find a working
solution. The issue is pressing as the posters have to go the printing
service today and on top of that, I have to design a broschure out of
those posters over the weekend (and I don't want to start until I know
that it will work). I've just tried to export a A4-page with very basic
graphics on it, but the esult was the same as with the big posters.
So my question:
1. Is it really impossible to export slides of OOImpress in an
appropriate way?
2. If it is not possible within the programm, is there any external
programm that could help to convert? Has any body some experience with
the extension named in the thread?
Just had a quick look - png indeed comes out blurred) using Draw, (I
assume Impress will be the same) by perhaps 2 or 3 pixels, and /really
should/ offer a choice of resolution.
Exporting to pdf with lossless compression looks sharp afaict - wouldn't
that be a better choice in any case? (Not that I'm excusing a bad png!)
Or you might export to PDF then use ghostscript or similar to convert to
what you need.
It is such a pity as I was defending OO in discussions with my new
collegues just a two days ago (and I know that it works in PPT).
I'm working on a 64bit-Vista-machine. The posters contain just very
basic graphics with colour fadings. Maybe it is just the picture viewer
that is not capable to show the graphics but I do not think so as I
tried IrfanViewer, Win Picture Viewer and PaintNET.
Many thanks for all your help, links and advice!!!!
David
I /think/ the program is called PDFCreator - can't check as I'm on a
linux box at present - but it provides a freebie windows pseudo printer
that will let any program print to a PDF or to your choice of a wide
selection of graphics formats. And it allows the resolution to be
chosen, although it's fiddly. (It is based round ghostscript). Quite
handy, really; there are others.
But an uncompressed A1 png at 300dpi (say?) is a big file.......
--
Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England
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