Re: [libreoffice-design] Scatter brained?

On 04/18/2011 02:57 PM, drew wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 21:52 +0200, Christoph Noack wrote:
> > Hi Drew!
> >
> > Thanks for the updates ... cool to see the progress :-)
> >
> > Am Montag, den 18.04.2011, 14:39 -0400 schrieb drew:
> > > Just a quick note - found a couple of little issues in all of these
> > > files. (dumb mistake)
> > Just a quick question - are the ones updated now? I still noticed some
> > little issues in the files, so please tell us when we should have a look
> > at it - which might be now ;-)
> The .svg files are current
>
> The .pdf files are worthless as far as I;m concerned (I'm ready to shoot
> inkscape)
>
> The .png files are are gong up now as full print runs now - will be a
> little bit. (20 minutes more)
>
> But why wait, what pray tell is the problems you see? Maybe I already
> saw them, maybe not.
>
> Thanks
>
> Drew
>
> > Cheers,
> > Christoph
> >
> >
> > > On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 11:11 -0400, drew wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 09:52 -0400, drew wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 08:40 -0400, drew wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I sized this piece for submittal to vistaprint (a commercial print
> > > > > > service), this is the full bleed size for the standard post card there.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > You can find the files here:
> > > > > > http://lo-portal.us/temp/postcard/vista-print-std-post-card-front.svg
> > > > > > http://lo-portal.us/temp/postcard/vista-print-std-post-card-front.png
> > > > > > http://lo-portal.us/temp/postcard/vista-print-std-post-card-front.pdf
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Let me know if this is acceptable.
> > > > and here is the back
> > > > http://lo-portal.us/temp/postcard/vista-print-std-post-card-back.svg
> > > > http://lo-portal.us/temp/postcard/vista-print-std-post-card-back.png
> > > > http://lo-portal.us/temp/postcard/vista-print-std-post-card-back.pdf
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Howdy again,
> > > > >
> > > > > Also - we are using the front of the post card as the basis for our
> > > > > mousepad design.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've sized the piece to the full bleed size for this, added a trademark
> > > > > line as there is no back to use, and added the slogan.
> > > > >
> > > > > http://lo-portal.us/temp/mousepad/vista-print-std-mousepad.svg
> > > > > http://lo-portal.us/temp/mousepad/vista-print-std-mousepad.png
> > > > > http://lo-portal.us/temp/mousepad/vista-print-std-mousepad.pdf
> > > > >
> > > > > Shoot away...  :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks again,
> > > > >
> > > > > Drew
The pdf export porblems with inkscape are known, and are a problem with 
the back end that inkscape uses for pdf. That said the best way to go 
would be export at 300dpi for the size you want to a png file,
then load into scribus and export to pdf.

Just my 0.02$
-Sonic

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