High definition photos printing from KDE
James Richard Tyrer
tyrerj at acm.org
Sun Nov 7 06:06:13 CET 2004
Tulear wrote:
> I tried to print (canon i865 with turboprint drivers) digital photos
> (1600*1200 pixels) from KDE applications - mandrake 10.1 - (konqueror,
> digkam, kuishow ...) but result is not so good even choosing the best
> printer definition (4800 dpi) : colors are fine but I can see pixels on
> 4"x6" or A4.
>
> It's not a driver problem : printing from Gimp 2.0 (with same driver) give me perfect
> results, as good as from Windows. It looks like KDE applications have reduced the image
> resolution ? Any idea about this curious pb ?
The problem is that your are running the image through the Qt PostScript driver.
You should print the image directly. It should not be converted to PostScript
first.
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JRT
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