[softwarelist] Re: Printing OPW and PDF files containing 1bpp TIFFs (sprites)

In message <44E59B99.4070000@xxxxxxxx>
          Clive Bonsall <C.Bonsall@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David Pilling wrote:
>> In message <44E57E49.1090009@xxxxxxxx>, Clive Bonsall
>> <C.Bonsall@xxxxxxxx> writes
>>> Switching from FastRes 1200 to ProRes 1200 (141 lpi) (with the same
>>> graphics setting) gets rid of the charcoal stick effect in the white
>>> areas of pictures. However, a thin line (aaaarrrgh ...!) then appears
>>> in the printout along the bottom and right-hand edges of certain
>>> pictures.
>> 
>> Not good news because there have been problems with that kind of thing
>> in the past (both Windows and RISC OS).
>> 
>> PostScript should be more accurate - well with "direct PostScript"
>> turned on.
> 
> At one time, when you were developing Unicode support for OPW (I think),
> we were advised not to use "direct PS", so I never got into the habit of
> using it. I will try it out and see what happens.
> 
> But just to be clear ... the problems I've reported only appear in
> printouts from a PDF file (derived from an OPW document), not when
> printing to my lj1220 direct from the OPW document.
> 
> When I get closer to finishing this particular publication project, I
> suppose I could send the publisher a sample PDF and ask them to check
> for problems ... I presume they can do that, tho' I have little idea
> what happens to a PDF file once it's sent to a publisher.

Are you sure they need PDF? - the printer I use is very happy to use 
Postscript - the output from the generic postscript driver works well 
for me.



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Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
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