[Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens'

[Derek Cordeiro]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Dr C. K. Raju <dr_c_k_raju at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:50:16 +0530> From: pchinnaswami at gmail.com
>> pls use .png format for images. hope it will solve your purpose> chinnaswami> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Derek Cordeiro <cordeiroderek at gmail.com> wrote:> >>> He says the photos won't print because they don't have a screen.
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> I don't see what the source format for images has to do with the pdf output.
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> Probably what the screen printer needs is a mirror-image of the output. The crop package should achieve this.
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Just to clarify, he normally uses applications like coreldraw(and
probably quark xpress) that add halftone screen information(for eg. 45
degrees angle for black, with some lpi information). However this
information is not generated or used by latex. If you readup on
PDFWriter vs Distiller by Adobe, this is one of the major differences,
distiller is used for high quality print jobs.

I can only guess that he uses a custom ppd for his printer or
something like that.

Regards,
Derek