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. -- Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.nckc.org.uk/