[Scribus] Setting Linescreen

[Wayne Maeda]

On Saturday 14 February 2004 10:52 pm, Steve Jacobs wrote:

> You can also export as pdf or postscript, then send that to the printer
> via ghostscript. Your command line will look something like:
>
> gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=lj5mono -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dDITHERPPI=85 -r1200
> -sOUTPUTFILE=\|lpr /home/steve/scribustest.pdf -c quit
>
> The important arg is -dDITTERPPI=85 (85lpi halftone, change the number
> to suit your needs). I think -r1200 tells ghostscript to compose to a
> 1200dpi (or whatever) device, overriding the device driver setting. You
> may or may not be need this. It seems to give me better halftones from
> my lj1200.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve

Steve,

Thanks for the tip. My document prints out OK except that the -dDITHERPPI 
setting doesn't seem to have any effect on the outcome. No matter what I set 
it to, the resulting linescreen on the printout is the same. My HPLJ1300 does 
support postscript emulation. Hmmm.

Wayne