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Some people don't have Photoshop so I looked for a another way to
work with Stepan's PDF files.<br>
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I opened his PDF file of the column in GSview, which runs
Ghostscript. I then chose Edit->convert to vector
format->magick driver. This driver uses GraphicsMagick or
ImageMagick to do conversions. I have GraphicsMagick installed on
the Windows XP system I was doing this on. When naming the output
file, I gave it an ".svg" extension, which tells the driver what
format I want to convert to. After conversion, I opened the file in
Inkscape and deleted a couple of black boxes obscuring the images
and also a black curve in the arrow of the the fourth sign. Then,
like Stefan, I did a little different layout, grouping into signs
first, then moving the signs around.<br>
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<img src="cid:part1.04020904.03060607@tampabay.rr.com" alt=""><br>
<br>
Bill<br>
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On 12/25/2011 1:01 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Hi Ingvild,
Valerie, Jonathan, Steve and friends, ...
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">First of all ... <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><img id="_x0000_i1027"
src="cid:part2.01020101.08020709@tampabay.rr.com"
height="203" width="556"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Second:
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">I
spent some time to
understand the postings about Ingvild’s problem with the
quality of the
graphics for publishing. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Finally
I found a neat
work around and I hope it works... <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Once
you have finished
the graphics with SignPuddle Column-Maker (SVG
Refinement) right click on
the given column and look for “Print actual frame”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">I
installed a program
called PDF24 - and voila I get a perfect PDF of this
column as you can see in
the attached Merry Christmas file ;-) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">If
you want to, you can
open the PDF in Photoshop in order to continue your work.
In this case a wrote
the same text from left to right.. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">I
feel so happy that this
procedure is working. Wow – Adam – and Steve and Valerie
your cooperation
allowed us to print materials with excellent graphics
quality. Congratulations!!
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">I
do not know yet what
the publisher for literature would say – but to me it
looks good. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Hope
all of you are doing
fine! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Stefan
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-GB">SignWriting List<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-GB">December 20, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-GB">I am glad to know
this too, Ingvild - To finally have
publishers and printers stating that our graphics quality
is excellent is a big
step forward, because before SVG, we had bitmaps with
staircased-circles, so
this is great news they could use svg for publishing
printed materials -<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Not everyone knows
how to use .svg - it is great on
the web, but to use it inside book-layout-software is
another story - I hope to
learn how to do this myself later - <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-GB">what would really
help, Steve, is to be able to print
to PDF from ColumnMaker once the svg format is refreshed
and ready to go - svg
to pdf is needed - <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt">Val ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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