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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Questions about printing in KWord?
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2002-11-21 11:42:08
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On Thursday 21 November 2002 10:35, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Monday 18 November 2002 9:21 pm, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> |  On Monday 18 November 2002 17:24, David Faure wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> |  > > 600 dpi is good but inkjets have resolution like 360 dpi. So we will
> |  > > again have Moiré problems. (Well, it is not really Moiré, it is just
> |  > > additional black or dark lines.)
> |  >
> |  > Lars told me this would be ok, and no such problem would happen.
> |  > Simply because the PS file is "interpreted" at the correct resolution
> |  > by the printer driver, no? It's not as if we were talking to the
> |  > printer directly...
> |
> |  There is always the problem of images. That is my current problem for
> | EPS (bug 42175: EPS figures print at low resolution.)
> |
> |  You can try it yourself. Find GhostScript's demo tiger.ps. Now print it
> |  directly (I did it with CUPS's lpr.) The direct print looks good.
> |
> |  Now use GhostScript's program ps2epsi to make an EPS out of tiger.ps.
> | Now load this generated EPS file in KWord. Now print it in KWord. It
> | looks bad. There are many dark horizontal lines on the grey background
> | and if you look at the teeth of the tiger, they look like stairs. (I do
> | not know if it would look as bad with 600 dpi.)
>
> You can overcome this by converting EPS to either WMF or SVG, and embedding
> SVG into KWord.
> That's what KWord do by default, IMHO.

No, for KWord/KPresenter EPS is an QImage. Making it a QPicture (WMF, SVG) 
will not be any good either.

>
> BTW: I have SVG variants of that tiger.ps (tiger.eps), I can send it to you
> if you are interested.

No, thank you! I want EPS to work. (Well, SVG too, but that is another 
problem, one for later.)

Have a nice day/evening/night!
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