Re: printing/exporting poster from OOImpress

On 14/10/11 11:12, David Schieferdecker wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I've got an urgent problem and I hope the solution is very easy and just
> not visible for me yet. I am a dilletant in graphic design and
> lay-outing, however, the first task for my new boss is to design three
> A1-poster for a conference. I did it in OOImpress 3.2 as this is the
> only grapic software I've at least a little bit of experience. The
> creation went very well and I was surprised how easy it works. When I
> tried to export the file as a png-file I've got a bad surprise, as the
> result was not as sharp as in OOImpress, rather very blurry.

OOImpress less sharp than OOImpress ??

>
> So I searched the internet for a solution, but just found that thread
> (http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4499). I've spent nearly
> an hour reading that, but unfortunately I wasn't able to find a working
> solution. The issue is pressing as the posters have to go the printing
> service today and on top of that, I have to design a broschure out of
> those posters over the weekend (and I don't want to start until I know
> that it will work). I've just tried to export a A4-page with very basic
> graphics on it, but the esult was the same as with the big posters.
>
> So my question:
>
> 1. Is it really impossible to export slides of OOImpress in an
> appropriate way?
> 2. If it is not possible within the programm, is there any external
> programm that could help to convert? Has any body some experience with
> the extension named in the thread?

Just had a quick look - png indeed comes out blurred) using Draw, (I 
assume Impress will be the same) by perhaps 2 or 3 pixels, and /really 
should/ offer a choice of resolution.

Exporting to pdf with lossless compression looks sharp afaict - wouldn't 
that be a better choice in any case? (Not that I'm excusing a bad png!) 
Or you might export to PDF then use ghostscript or similar to convert to 
what you need.

>
> It is such a pity as I was defending OO in discussions with my new
> collegues just a two days ago (and I know that it works in PPT).
>
> I'm working on a 64bit-Vista-machine. The posters contain just very
> basic graphics with colour fadings. Maybe it is just the picture viewer
> that is not capable to show the graphics but I do not think so as I
> tried IrfanViewer, Win Picture Viewer and PaintNET.
>
> Many thanks for all your help, links and advice!!!!
>
> David


I /think/ the program is called PDFCreator - can't check as I'm on a 
linux box at present - but it provides a freebie windows pseudo printer 
that will let any program print to a PDF or to your choice of a wide 
selection of graphics formats. And it allows the resolution to be 
chosen, although it's fiddly. (It is based round ghostscript). Quite 
handy, really; there are others.

But an uncompressed A1 png at 300dpi (say?) is a big file.......



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Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England
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