Ink Settings and Printing

[Richmond Mathewson]

  On 02/05/2010 21:33, Scott Rossi wrote:
> Recently, Marty Knapp wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to print a card with a jpeg image on it and have noticed that
>> when I set the Ink to anything other than the standard  srcCopy that the
>> image quality suffers noticeably. I think I tired every setting that
>> allows underlaying objects to show through the white bounding box of my
>> jpeg - which is what I need. Has anyone else tried something like this?
>>
>> I've tried this also with png images and gif images as well- all seems
>> to suffer when set to (for example) "blendMultiply."
> Marty, have you tried creating a snapshot of the card first, and then
> printing the snapshot?  Might work better than trying to force the
> inks/image formats.
>

I've had to do a lot of this sort of thing recently. My experience is 
that if
one has an image with various settings such as ink/blending, graphic effects
(I am in love with a charcoal inner glow on a white border) and one attempts
to export it as an image all those settings are lost; similarly so 
exporting a
snapshot.

If, however, one groups the image after one has set all the effects 
(just create
a group out of the image by itself; a bit counter intuitive, but there 
we are) and
then exports either it or the whole card as a snapshot everything is 
preserved.