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Hello,
I have created an simple, vintage looing calling card. It contains two colored graphic objects, that are properly shown on the screen.
But if I print the image, those objects are only printed as kind of white shadows.
What setting causes that effect and how can I solve this problem?
Thank you very much for helping!
Holger
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Holger, thanks for posting your calling card.
Apart from not having your Fonts, it presents all OK here.
I didn't print it but exported the design to a PNG and I know it would then print fine.
I can't see the point of the background being a picture as you could recreate this with plasma cloud fill quite easily; I would normally do this to be able to rescale my output and not be dependent on a bitmap resolution that might be too low. It's presently 96dpi and I assume that unless it is an image for a site, it may need printing at 300dpi for best effect.
Acorn
Thank you very much for helping me!
I have insert now two additional images: numer 1 is showing how it looks on my screen and numer 2 is a scan of the printing result.
Concerning the background: I would like to have a vintage paper background and do not know how to make it with that plasma cloud fill. But I will look for a higher resolution paper background.
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Holger, try upping the export resolution by exporting the Calling Card at 300dpi as a PNG, then print that.
I think it is two PNGs on top of a 96dpi JPG that is the problem.
To prove it, remove the background image and replace with a flat Rectangle of similar colour.
Acorn
Hi Holger, According to your profile you are using Xtreme Pro 5 is this information still current? I'll gladly put together a short tutorial on creating an old looking piece of paper using the fractal fills and transparencies, but it will help if I know for sure what version you are using. :)
Thank you for your help and comments!
angelize, I use Xtreme Pro 5 and have now installed Xara Designer Pro X too, because I think about upgrading to this. So a tutorial for Pro X would be a fine help. Thank you very much!
best regards
Holger
A new version of Designer Pro is expected somewhere between now and July, so you might want to wait for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Holger
Good to know, thank you!
Fixed. I tried several things. There seemed to be something wrong with the two images. I made a bitmap copy of them deleted the others and put the copies where they belonged and it prints fine now.
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This drawing exports to PDF and the PDF prints just fine.
Were these guns a trace? Looks/acts like it to me.
Take care, Mike
BTW, the file prints as intended to a true postscript printer (a Phaser in my case). Attempting to print to a printer using postscript emulation or one of my inkjets fails.
Mike
Thank you all a lot!
I wish I could figure out what is wrong with these images. They are part of a larger collcetion of handdrawn old west-images. I had the hope to use it for other purposes, because they are handdrawn vectors in eps-format. Maybe they are results of traced/vectorized handdrawn sketches and the reason is caused by that anyway. I had never such a problem before with vector-images. But making a bitmap copy is a way to work with the images.
To a non-PS printer, you can opt to print the page as an image and that works well, too.
Take care, Mike
that was very helpful, thank you.