[Scribus] Images in resulting pdf

[Craig Bradney]

On Monday 16 January 2006 22:01, [KS] wrote:
> Asif Lodhi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > [KS] wrote:
> >>However, after the conversion to pdf (JPEG compression of Max quality at
> >>original dpi of imgages) there is a lot of black level in the images.
> >
> > IIRC, in Scribus documentation (in 1.2.1 probably), it was mentioned
> > that TIFF is the De Facto image standard for good quality output and,
> > then again, the quality of TIFF should be set higher without too much
> > compression (better not compress at all!).  Also, screen snapshots can
> > be put in in PNG format with 300 resolution.  May be you are facing
> > problems because you didn't use the recommended image formats.
>
> Hmm...that is an interesting point. I will dig into the documentation
> for the relavent part for detailed information. I used png images for
> the document as those were the only ones made available to me. Getting
> tiff images might be difficult as some artists don't have access to high
> speed internet connections e.g someone in Australia has a dialup only
> and gets images made from a photographer living in the city.
>
> Thanks for the information though,

PNGs are perfectly fine to use, in general.

Craig
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