[kde-doc-english] More on PDF generation

Philip Rodrigues philip.rodrigues at chch.ox.ac.uk
Sun Sep 11 00:01:45 CEST 2005


On Saturday 10 September 2005 21:53, Robert Wadley wrote:
> >>* Images are very rough (look like enlarged low-res pictures).
> >
> >I'm not sure where the problem lies for this one. It might be a display
> >problem, with the images appearing OK when printed. Once I've sorted out
> > the "oversize" image problem, I'll take a look into this.
>
> The print size attributes of the images need to be set.
> Using the Gimp: (Or whatever you like to use that can set this attribute.)
> 'Image' --> 'Print size...'
> Adjust the print size settings so they will look good when printed in
> the pdf. 'screen resolutions' looks okay on a monitor but for printing
> you will need a lot higher resolution or you end up with the problem you
> describe.  You can take care of the "oversize image" problem too as you
> can define the size the image needs to be when printed.

Ah yes, this works. Is there a "correct" size or dpi to set the image to, or 
do I just set an image to have "width" equal to the page (text) width?

Regards,
Philip
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