Issue 20142 - PDF Export: press-quality is not good enough.
Summary: PDF Export: press-quality is not good enough.
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 20327
Alias: None
Product: gsl
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC5
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P2 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: OOo 2.0
Assignee: christof.pintaske
QA Contact: issues@gsl
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Reported: 2003-09-26 10:13 UTC by sorrodp
Modified: 2004-11-18 14:30 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description sorrodp 2003-09-26 10:13:23 UTC
(guessing on the "subcomponent"... i don't see that this bug applies to either
"code" nor "www")

I have tried the "PDF Export" function in OO 1.1 RC5, using the "Press" quality
output.

THe PDFs produced this way are not as good in quality as the "Press" quality
PDFs produced with OO 1.0.3.1 (by "printing" to a PDF Writer device)

I created a OO Drawing with high-quality graphics (no compression) for good
printing quality (using a professional quality color laser printer).  This is a
file I created in 1.0.3.1, and I have opened it in both 1.0.3.1 and 1.1RC5 to
compare the output of the PDF exporting functions.

I output this drawing in PDF, press-quality (the filesize is big, but I need the
quality), to take it to a printing shop.  The results are good, as expected.

But with OO 1.1 RC5, the result is unsatisfactory:

By zooming in the graphics of both PDFs, one can see that the file produced by
1.1RC5 have lossy compression applied to them, while the graphics in the PDFs
produced by 1.0.3.1 do not have any lossy compression applied, which is what I need.

The filesize of the 1.1RC5 PDF file is also smaller than the 1.0.3.1 one.

I assume it is just a matter of using the right parameters in the "gs" command
line,  but as it is right now, 1.1 RC5 is using bad parameters to achieve a
press-quality PDF file.

My 1.0.3.1 setup for PDF generating using GS  
(from a Mandrake 9.1 OpenOffice package) is the following:

/usr/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4
-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dAutoFilterColorImages=false
-sColorImageFilter=FlateEncode -dAutoFilterGrayImages=false
-sGrayImageFilter=FlateEncode -sOutputFile="(OUTFILE)" -
Comment 1 christof.pintaske 2003-09-26 12:04:35 UTC
cp: works as designed. OpenOffice "press" quality has nothing to do
with ghostscript "prepress" quality.

cp->mmp: i rather see this as an rfe to get a complete lossless mode
for press quality. that would be doable but does not fit with the spec
right now.
Comment 2 matthias.mueller-prove 2003-09-26 15:43:57 UTC
MMP: changed to RFE. I will have a an eye on this while developing the
spec. 
Comment 3 matthias.mueller-prove 2003-10-27 18:49:59 UTC
Yes, cf. http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/pdf_export/KickOffOct2003.sxw
Comment 4 matthias.mueller-prove 2004-03-17 14:03:30 UTC
MMP->CP: Thanks for taking over.
Comment 5 christof.pintaske 2004-05-24 16:38:45 UTC
cp: will be fixed for beta
Comment 6 christof.pintaske 2004-05-25 18:20:29 UTC
targeted for 8 according to
http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/pdf_export/PDFExport.sxw
Comment 7 christof.pintaske 2004-07-30 15:47:51 UTC
I put this on duplicate to #i20327#. We will improve on the image quality as
described there. In fact the better image quality (default setting 90% jpeg,
optionally losless compression) and the new dialog are already implemented in
CWS pdf01.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 20327 ***
Comment 8 christof.pintaske 2004-08-02 13:42:46 UTC
closing this one as duplicate (see above)
Comment 9 christof.pintaske 2004-11-18 14:30:15 UTC
*** Issue 37400 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***