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Subject: Re: BOUNCE docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org: Approval required:


There is a Ghostscript6.01 out too.

Phill

Norman Walsh wrote:

> Approved: turnip
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>         Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:49:19 -0700 (PDT)
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> To: "Kevin M. Dunn" <kevinmd@hsc.edu>
> cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Creating or converting PDF images
> In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:09:12 EDT."
>              <396B8CF8.C3464303@hsc.edu>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:49:19 -0700
> From: rosss@research.oneworld.com
>
> > I didn't convert at all, just used your png file directly. The quality looks
> > identical to that of your original file. But
> > ImageMagick does assume 72 dpi unless you tell it otherwise. Check out:
> > cator.hsc.edu/~kmd/docbook/test/rosss.sgml
> > cator.hsc.edu/~kmd/docbook/test/rosss.dsl
> > cator.hsc.edu/~kmd/docbook/test/rosss.pdf
> > cator.hsc.edu/~kmd/docbook/test/png-support-3.1.dtd
> >
>
> Thanks a ton Kevin, although when I view your PDF (on either Unix or
> Windows), I'm seeing the same (poor) image quality I'm getting.  If
> you compare
>
> http://zaius.chimpware.com/~rosss/sample.png
>
> with either of the images on page 5 of your PDF at
>
> http://cator.hsc.edu/~kmd/docbook/test/rosss.pdf
>
> you'll see that the PDF version is different than my PNG.  It's got
> extra pixels, the text is kind of goofy, and it just looks "funny"
> compared to the original PNG screenshot.  It's like it's been shrunk
> or stretched, but without being resampled so it's just lost or gained
> pixels randomly.
>
> Anyway, your PDF has exactly the same problem as what I've been getting.
>
> What tools are you using?
>
> Does anybody know if Ghostscript is involved with this process at all?
> I'm running GNU Ghostscript 5.10, and noticed that there's a 5.50
> version out...
>
> Thanks for everybody's help and patience.
>
> Sean Ross
> Corvallis, Oregon, USA
> rosss@research.oneworld.com



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