[KLUG Members] Those grainy postscript files...

[Tony Gettig]

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 10:52, adam@morrison-ind.com wrote:
> >When I print, no matter if it's to the humble Lexmark 3200 inkjet at
> >home or to the HP Laserjet 4050 at work, the job comes out grainy.
> >Additionally, if I print to a postscript file, run it through ps2pdf, I
> >get the same result: a grainy looking PDF file. The text is OK, but any
> >kind of graphic looks shabby.
> 
> What program is generating the original output?

In Linux, I've tried Star Office and KWord. In W2K, it's Word or
Publisher printing through Adobe Acrobat.

> 
> >If I print a PDF I grab from the Internet (open in xpdf, print to ps
> >file, send to printer), it's perfect. 
> 
> If you convert the PDF to Postscript (pdftops) and view it in ggv does it do the
> same thing?

Hey, that's cool! They *seem* to look better in ggv. Not as choppy and
grainy, but still not crisp (like the Acrobat created PDF's).

> 
> What version of ghostscript do you have?

rpm -q ghostscript reveals: ghostscript-6.51-16

> 
> >>From the reading I've done so far, I'm thinking I need to tweak
> >something in my ghostscript setup. Any suggestions? 
>  
> Have you tried setting the output resoltion -r<xres>x<yres>

Nope. Not sure how, but I'll start looking for how to right now. :)

> 
> Any commonality as to the input graphic format?  (You embed a JPEG in an image
> verses a TIFF, etc...)

I've only used gif and jpg for graphics thus far. I wish I would have
saved the original version of the PDF for a flyer I did in Star Office
and converted to PDF. 

Here are two examples...one pdf and one ps. I think the ps looks better.

http://www.penguindude.com/pdf/pics.pdf
http://www.penguindude.com/pdf/pics.ps

I have to say, the PDF's I create with Acrobat in W2k are crisp and
clear. But I'd much rather use Linux to do this.

Thanks for the great info. I super appreciate it!

Tony


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