Having been disappointed with other photo book companies, I'm hoping that PrestoPhoto has the image quality I've been looking for. I leave the mono resolution at 1200dpi so that mono graphics print nicely on a black and white printer even though the PrestoPhoto printer won't benefit from the increased resolution. You can change the Gray and Color DPIs to 300 if your file is too big. Which would re-process the scribus_output.pdf file into upload_to_viovio.pdf, with images resized to 600dpi. Gs -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dSAFER -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sstdout=%stderr -dGrayImageResolution=600 -dMonoImageResolution=1200 -dColorImageResolution=600 -sOutputFile=upload_to_viovio.pdf -c. Here's the command that we use to process the Scribus PDF into something PrestoPhoto will handle (GhostScript required): However, if we run the Scribus PDF through GhostScript, the PDF that GhostScript creates seems to work fine with PrestoPhoto. We've done a couple of PrestoPhoto books using Scribus now, and it seems like PrestoPhoto doesn't like something about the PDFs that Scribus creates, even though they work fine in Adobe Reader or other PDF viewers. Neevia has a great PDF tool that is under $30, and the Mac version comes with all OS X mac's Any of those three options should work well. Instead, we recommend you use Adobe Acrobat, Apple's "Save As PDF" on Mac, or on Windows to create a PDF by "printing" the document from Scribus to a PDF file. Therefore, in the very near future, we will prevent creation of products where the Scribus PDF generation tool was used. The pdf generation process in Scribus appears to be extremely unreliable if you are concerned with image qualityĪdditionally, Scribus is known to have problematic PDF support. Typically, PDFs should not be more than about 5 megs per page. We have found that this program can create extremely large PDFs which don't rasterize well for printing. Please use extreme care when using this program for photo book creation. Scribus is an open-source program that brings professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
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