[scribus] Working with 1bit black & white line art

Stefan stmstmstmster at gmail.com
Sun Sep 23 07:37:27 UTC 2012


In PDF Export, try Compression Method => None

Will blow up your PDF, but retain quality.

2012/9/23 Martin Patenaude-Monette <mpatenaudemonette at gmail.com>

> Dear list,
>
> I'm working on Scribus 1.4.1 with MacOS 10.7.5. I'm doing comic books and
> black & white «line art». I imported some 1bit files saved in tiff with
> GIMP, at 900dpi.
>
> I created and exported a pdf with Scribus, in "PDF 1.4", with "automatic
> compression" and "maximum quality". Unfortunately, when I tried printing my
> pdf, my lines looked a bit dotted and fuzzy on the paper. If I print my
> tiff files directly from GIMP, the line is perfectly clear.
>
> It looks like Scribus 1.4.1 converts my 1-bit tiff files in greyscale. It
> seems that developpers are working on this issue for version 1.5 (
> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=11029). That sounds good for the
> future, but I need a solution rapidly: do you have any simple solution with
> Scibus?
>
> Best regards,
> Martin
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