printing reduced graphics

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Mon Aug 10 19:46:19 EDT 2009


Recently, stephen barncard wrote:

> I've had this personal app in Rev that creates CD labels from Waveburner
> rundown files. This was originally an HC stack but I converted to Runrev
> years ago and made many improvements. One feature was to include image
> controls on the card to print those images.   When I started using this app,
> I used .pct images because they were uncompressed and would scale nicely and
> print with more resolution when reduced.   Unfortunately, PICT files are now
> not encouraged and are not cross platform. So I went to .png graphics, which
> can do transparency, it seemed like a good fit and seemed to work as well in
> earlier versions of Rev.
> However, in the recent versions (3.0) they print terribly, are all fuzzy.
> What happened? Is there some antialiasing that should be turned off or what?
> My graphics look like dirt again. I looked at some earlier printings and
> they looked great.

If you're resizing the images, did you try setting the resizeQuality of the
images to "best"?

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design





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