__/ [Rico Heil] on Wednesday 31 August 2005 08:36 \__
> jonasforssell@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Gentlemen,
>
> What about the ladies? ;-)
Like when Americans say "guys", perhaps no discrimination was intended.
>> I'm trying to make a poster using the Scribus program. In the poster,
>> there are to be some screenshots from a program of mine.
>
> I don't know Scribus, but I think this is just a problem of
> understanding...
It shouldn't matter how the poster is assembled, assuming it will not
resample the image in some gross way like Internet Explorer does, for
instance.
>> I've been using Gimp to acquire the screenshots but when I import
>> them into scribus they don't look right in resolution.
You might discover even more flexibility if you use Image Magick. The
'import
command, to be more precise.
>> The poster will be made with a 300 dpi resolution. How do I aquire a
>> screenshot with this resolution in Gimp? When using a scanner, this
>> is adjustable.
The scanner is able to handle a greater density of pixels; printers
likewise. The screen will output the contents of the frame buffer and
unless you use vector graphics, your image will always be discrete. Put
differently... [see below]
> Your screen is organized in pixels. If you have a resolution of let's
> say 1280*1024 pixels, then this will be the size of a screenshot image
> in pixels. If you use this with 300 dpi, the width will be
> 1280/3 = 4.3 inches = 10.8 cm.
[...continued]
11cm (in terms of width) is the most you can get on the paper while
retaining the information in the original image.
> Of course you could increase the image size of the screenshot in GIMP,
> but this would only interpolate more pixels without additional
> information.
This may still be better than another program that will not interpolate the
image. I don't know Scribus, but it might have that undesirable effect. I
suggest that you rescale your screenshots in the GIMP before importing them
into Scribus. That'll make more or less the best-quality screenshots you
can hope for.
> Even without knowing Scribus, I bet there is a way to resize graphics
> there. If you use this, it will have the same effect. Of course, you
> will be able to see pixels in the printout, but this is just the way
> screenshots behave (just look at any screenshot in a computer magazine).
>
> Rico
The OP added:
> Hi Rico,
>
> My problem is that the screenshot turns out very large in Scribus and
> shrinking it destroys the quality.
In that case, Scribus does not shrink the images gracefully (much like in
the Internet Explorer analogy mentioned above). You need to pre-process
(downsample) the image/w in the GIMP before importing it/them. Set it to
the desired size so that you don't have to re-size any objects in Scribus.
> I'll rephrase my question in the Scribus forum.
>
> Thanks
> /Jonas
Hope it helps,
Roy
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