printing reduced graphics

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Mon Aug 10 22:50:22 EDT 2009


They are resized with a slider ... so I need to set the quality to best
every time I change the image size?
Is the default set to "bad" normally?

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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://barncard.com


2009/8/10 Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com>

> 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
>



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