[Scribus] Setting Linescreen

[Steve Jacobs]

You can also export as pdf or postscript, then send that to the printer 
via ghostscript. Your command line will look something like:

gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=lj5mono -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dDITHERPPI=85 -r1200 
-sOUTPUTFILE=\|lpr /home/steve/scribustest.pdf -c quit

The important arg is -dDITTERPPI=85 (85lpi halftone, change the number 
to suit your needs). I think -r1200 tells ghostscript to compose to a 
1200dpi (or whatever) device, overriding the device driver setting. You 
may or may not be need this. It seems to give me better halftones from 
my lj1200.

Regards,

Steve

Alastair Robinson wrote:
> 
>>Anyone know how I can set the linescreen through Scribus whenever I print
>>to an HP Laserjet 1300 (postscript emulation) printer? I need to print some
>>newspaper ads (75-85 lpi) and can't figure out how to do this in Scribus.
>>CorelDraw (in Windows) will set the linescreen on the same printer but
>>Acrobat5 (both Linux and Windows versions) will not. Please let me know if
>>I'm missing something here.
> 
> 
> I guess this isn't the answer you're looking for, but try printing to a file, 
> and editing the generated postscript by hand.  You need to insert the 
> following commands - they might work after the first block of comments, but 
> you might need to place them after the PageSetup stuff instead...
> 
> currentscreen 3 1 roll pop pop 45 75 3 -1 roll setscreen

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Steve Jacobs
Steve Jacobs & Associates
Trinidad, Colorado US