Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 20142
PDF Export: press-quality is not good enough.
Last modified: 2004-11-18 14:30:15 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)" -
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.
MMP: changed to RFE. I will have a an eye on this while developing the spec.
Yes, cf. http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/pdf_export/KickOffOct2003.sxw
MMP->CP: Thanks for taking over.
cp: will be fixed for beta
targeted for 8 according to http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/pdf_export/PDFExport.sxw
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 ***
closing this one as duplicate (see above)
*** Issue 37400 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***