Re: Hi-resolution pictures & printing

Christian wrote:
> Hello.  I'm having trouble printing hi-res pics (600 dpi) images with
> the FTC.  They print blurry, and by default, the FTC reduces the DPI
> to 72.  I have tried to go through the control and ensure it maintains
> the DPI of the image sent in.  However, when that is done & I set the
> printersetup object's max horiz / max vertiz to -1 to get the best
> quality, the FTC beachballs when I tell it to print.  If I don't set
> the printersetup values to -1, it prints, but again, the images are
> blurry.
>
> Also, while looking at the code, I saw that if scale =1 when inserting
> an image, a resize is still performed.  Additionally, image resizing
> in the FTC seems to use REALbasic's built-in scaling which is of poor
> quality.  I would much rather have it follow the guidelines of using
> the MBS scaling functions or the Einhugur scaling functions since one
> or the other is already required.
>
> Are there any solutions for the mentioned issues in the pipeline
> already?  How about a workaround for the reduced image DPI / scaling?
> Thank you.

I will need to investigate this. I know I in the original release
I left off the support of higher resolution pictures. This is a
good as time as any to tackle this.

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