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Subject:    Fwd: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens'
From:       "=?UTF-8?Q?Frederick_Noronha?= =?UTF-8?Q?_[=E0=A5=9E=E0=A4=B0?= =?UTF-8?Q?=E0=A5
Date:       2008-11-18 15:46:07
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Can you please help my friend seeking the info below? FN


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Derek Cordeiro <cordeiroderek@gmail.com>
Date: 2008/11/18
Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens'
To: TUGIndia Mailing List <tugindia@tug.org>


On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Nina Mazumdar <nina.mazumdar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
> <fred@bytesforall.org> wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> I'm a Lyx user in Goa, and hope you won't mind me intruding.
>>
>> Every time I go in for a book, to be printed via offset, my printer
>> has a problem. He takes the PDF file and attempts to do crazy things
>> like importing it into Windows/Corel Draw, etc.
>>
>> He says the photos won't print because they don't have a screen.
>
> True, TeX does not add a screen to images as some of the proprietary
> systems like Quark, et al do.  But that is not an excuse for the

What extra information does an image with a "screen" have? Is it
half-toning information or something specific to the printer?
Will a higher resolution image or pdf with less compression help?

Regards,
Derek

P.S. I don't see any visible differences in the images in pdfs
generated by Quark or distiller when compared to pdflatex, which is
why I wish to clarify my doubts.
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