Hello everyone<br><br>During Free Font Booksprint we experienced difficulties in printing the book for proof-read (3 hours to print the manual around 100 pages at this time). And now, some users do feel difficulties with the PDF they get or PDF we send them. <br>
<br>I've made some Export tested from our Ardour book and checked the quality in Acrobat Pro (unfortunately proprietary).<br><br>I did an A4, an A5, and a A5 in grey scale.<br><br>Attached, a sum up of the tests. It appears to me that they are really many issues with the PDFS. Why do i say that ? Just thinking of the print typology our users will use :<br>
1. Personal printing<br>2. Semi-pro digital printing<br>3. Pro digital printing (normalized)<br>4. Pro offset printing (normalized)<br><br>I fact, none of our PDFs match those cases.<br><br>Some issues will be hard to understand but some are really interesting because of their strangeness :<br>
- page of different sizes in a single document<br>- transparencies (where do they come from ?)<br>- even the greyscale export is not pure black<br><br>There might be some settings to change between PDFtk and other used tools in the export process.<br>
<br>I uploaded the files and the test reports here :<br><a href="http://www.cgemy.com/public/fmfr/">http://www.cgemy.com/public/fmfr/</a><a href="http://cgemy.com/webadmin.php?action=view&file=%2Fhomez.40%2Fcgemy%2FBookiTests.zip">BookiTests.zip</a><br>
<br>My opinion is :<br>if we say people can print the books, it should be ok and easy to do (not being done in 3 hours or give problems) or we should avoid it. I can't thing Fmfr be responsible of such waste of time for its users or worst make them loose money because they did a certain amount of professional printing that occured to be bad.<br>
I would hide the settings that don't work correctly until they are really usable without too much trouble.<br><br>until that...i'm beginning to check for a library that can be used for a free PDF checker<br>and until i find it...<br>
Cheers<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Cédric Gémy<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------<br>Formationlibre.org<br>FlossManualsFrancophone<br>Association Francophone des Graphistes Libres<br><br>