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

[ale rimoldi]

hi

yep, i think stefan hint is probably the good one.

you can also use the lossless zip compression if size matters...
on black and white images, i think it should give pretty good
compression.

ciao
a.l.e

> 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