Re: Ghostscript problems: stroke width

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, hoffmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Andreas,

monitor appearance is a preview, depends on anti-aliasing
in Acrobat (Smooth LineArt = On) and setstrokeadjust in
the program.

I wouldn't worry about, as long as the prints and the monitor
preview for e.g. zoom=400% are looking as expected.

Very thin lines (zero line width) are shown by all devices
with minimal device line width (nothing gets lost).

Well, nothing gets lost until you print the plate or make a photocopy or microfiche.

On a phototypesetter you may get a "hairline" that probably won't reproduce well. On high-end color printers (dye-sub) with anti-aliasing you may be a barely visible gray line.

It is not unusual for publishers to get author EPS files with zero line width that looked OK at 300 dpi on the author's printer. Some typesetting workflows let you specify a the minimum line width. In many cases publishers just print such files on a 300 dpi printer and scan the figures. For high-end publications figures are often redrawn (when I have pointed out problems in some authors' figures, they say "the figure looks great in my book so your printer is no good"). For lower quality pubs publishers just use the scanned images.

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George N. White III <aa056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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