[FM Discuss] Optimizing images for printing

Wed Nov 2 02:34:35 PDT 2011

I would love to know in what is the process you plan to ?

Don't forget ask the graphic designer of the team, about managing image or
test the features ;)
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2011/11/2 Aleksandar Erkalovic <aerkalov at gmail.com>

> we planned different versions for print and web from the start. it is
> just, we didn't implement it because we didn't have time. now we will
> have time to finally implement it, but we also have lots of books and
> existing code that will have to be changed..... arrrghhhh indeed  but
> at least we know better how to handle our workflows better and how to
> implement this feature.
>
> aco
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Cedric Gémy <cedric.gemy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > lo everyone
> >
> > trouble with pictures for web is that they are 2 small for print purpose.
> > I'm actually trying to layout Scribus manual in Scribus and get low res
> > pictures even at small size (only halt of the page width). I was wishing
> to
> > do an XSLT conversion Script, but this picture quality is a pb that
> actually
> > stops me.
> >
> > What we'd need is at least IMO :
> > - be able to upload full size pictures (which might not be enough, but
> > better)
> > - have an automatic resizing feature for the website, at least at
> display if
> > not applied to image itself (sources pictures could be stored in a
> different
> > directory PDF could une one directory and the screen formats another one)
> > - save as PNG for best quality. JPEG is very bad with lines. That might
> > affect text too
> > - the right size of an image for print process is :
> > (widthinpixels*(targetresolution/actualresolution)) idem for height, but
> it
> > depends of the workflow you have
> >
> > CU
> >
> > 2011/11/2 helen varley jamieson <helen at creative-catalyst.com>
> >>
> >> i'm not a graphics expert, & also i'm less often thinking about
> printing &
> >> more often about web so i tend to make everything as low-res as
> possible. i
> >> guess a guideline would be useful, especially including the standard
> >> printed-out size of the manual so that you can try to make the actual
> image
> >> the right size when you insert it.
> >>
> >> h : )
> >>
> >> On 2/11/11 9:05 AM, adam wrote:
> >>>
> >>> i think png is best...
> >>>
> >>> adam
> >>>
> >>> On 11/01/2011 10:25 PM, Tomi Toivio wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Does somebody have a procedure for optimizing manual images for
> >>>> printing?
> >>>> What is the best file format? What is the best way to reduce the image
> >>>> size
> >>>> without the quality being reduced? GIMP? Any guidelines for this?
> >>>>
> >>>> Actually there should probably be a manual on how to use pictures on
> >>>> FLOSS
> >>>> Manuals...
> >>>>
> >>>> There have been some timeout errors when trying to publish books on
> the
> >>>> Finnish site, after debugging this for a while it started to seem like
> >>>> the
> >>>> web hosting organization had just changed timeout settings when they
> >>>> updated the servers about a week ago. Now the timeout on our server is
> >>>> 120,
> >>>> which means that usually the book publishing process gets a timeout
> when
> >>>> trying to publish the PDF. Sometimes it manages to do it in less than
> >>>> 120
> >>>> seconds and the process finishes without error. So the timeout
> settings
> >>>> should be increased to at least 360 or more?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>
> >>
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> >>
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