Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Creating or converting PDF images

[rosss at research dot oneworld dot com]

> > rosss@research.oneworld.com writes:
> >  > What are people using to create PDF format images?  I've got a bunch
> >  > of screenshots as PNG files, and when I convert them to PDF with Image
> >  > Magick they come out badly, not completely unusable, but definately
> >  > worse than they started out.  If I just use the PNG files, they also
> >  > show up in the resulting book PDF with this same reduced quality.

> I was trying to work around this by generating PDF files myself, to
> see if I could get better quality, and then see if it would make it
> into the PDF document from there.  So far I haven't had any luck.

Well, it looks like I may have figured this out.  My PNG images are
74x74 dpi.  The conversion stuff is expecting 72x72 (I think).

If I convert the images with ImageMagic using:

convert -density 74 foo.png foo.epdf

The image quality is right.

Somebody correct me if this sounds too weird to be happening this way...

Thanks,

Sean Ross
Corvallis, Oregon, USA
rosss@research.oneworld.com