[Gvsig_english] Some questions regarding printing

[Wolfgang Qual]

Hello Marcel,
> I do not know the printing capability of Qgis.  But, for arcmap on
> window, the printing is alway problematic.  If you include picture,
> the color is impossible to ajust betwen the picture and the map.  The
> output in ps or pdf have also problems.  After many years of problems
> with the prepress we finaly, like said before, export in tiff, finish
> in photoshop so they can, in prepress, ajust the color with photoshop
> if necessary.
This is interesting. I am not really aware of the problems regarding printing 
in ArcGIS, but a colleague of mine created that cycle map using ArcGIS and 
Acrobat distiller I think.
>
> So, export in tiff should be on the export option. 
I agree that tiff should be one of the export formats of gvSIG
> Ps is nice but, 
> depend also on the computer you use, you need to be able to convert
> all symbology and fonts to be sure the prepress can replicate your
> work.  
I think that ps is *standard* and you should be able to embedd all 
symbology/fonts in that file.
> Also the rendering depend on the prepress computer when parsing 
> ps since mac and pc doesn't have the same color profile.
But it can be handled.
>
> So the output should be offer in ps, pdf/x3 or so, and in raster tiff,
> png  etc.  But, what is lacking in arcmpap is a color profile to have
> the same output on any type of computer and type of export for prepress.
I agree. Thanks for your comments!

Best,
Wolfgang
>
> Marcel
>
> Le 08-07-25 à 08:40, Wolfgang Qual a écrit :
> > Hello Silvio,
> > [...]
> >
> >> In my opinion, the most important thing to add in the
> >> map is the option to save the map as image (e.g. as
> >> jpeg, png, tiff).
> >> Once you get an image you can trasform it into a pdf
> >> (Scribus is very handy to do that and the next 1.3.5
> >> version is going to rock!).
> >> At present, the only workaround I am aware of is to
> >> take a screenshot of the map with Gimp or other
> >> sofwares in order to produce an image.
> >> In Quantum gis and ArcGis you can save the map as
> >> image.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > I do not know about the *quality* of the exported image files of
> > QGIS and
> > ArcGIS. I fear that it might be not as good as what would be needed
> > when you
> > want to give it to a professional. You might also have problems
> > regarding the
> > scale of the map. Therefore, I would expect that an export format
> > like ps
> > would be better. And do not forget svg. This would make it possible
> > to make
> > some edits afterwards. Maybe someone else could give some input on
> > a) planned features of gvSIG regarding this issue
> > b) features of other GIS software tools (like ArcGIS)
> >
> > Best,
> > Wolfgang
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