Re: [Gimp-print-devel] More stuff

[Ron v. O. <R.A...@Wb...>]

Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> 
>    Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 12:57:49 +0200
>    From: Ron van Ostayen <R.A...@Wb...>
> 
>    Quality   Time(s)  FileSize     Printing time (time cat tiger0..9.prn >
>    /dev/lp0)
>      0        33.2     1986522       18.5  OK but top margin is approx
>    0.9cm smaller than for other settings.
>      1       112.1     7118815       68.0  OK
>      2       110.6     7118808       error in output (empty pages and
>    garbage)
>      3       116.1         955 !!
>      4      signal 11
>      5       191.5     9977020      121.0  OK
>      6       190.2         605 !!
>      7       198.7        2042 !!
>      8       356.4        2127 !!
>      9       390.9        1549 !!
> 
>    I have succesfully tested 3.1.3 with quality setting 0,1,2,3,5,6 and 8
>    so the last changes seem to have broken some settings.
> 
> Could you retest settings 2, 3, and 6?

I have, and they are still broken.  The output file sizes are not
exactly the same, but mode 2 still produces blank and garbage pages, and
modes 3 and 6 produce small files.

> 
> BTW, were you using ordered dither (dither=1)?  I think that might
> account for the file size of 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9.  That bug should be
> fixed.  Try dither=2 (random Floyd-Steinberg) and dither=4 (adaptive
> random Floyd-Steinberg).

I have used the default dither (dither=0?).
Dither=2 doesn't change the result.

> 
> I know the rendering time is awful...please bear with this for a while
> longer...
> 
> --
> Robert Krawitz <rl...@al...>      http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
> 

Ron van Ostayen
R.A...@Wb...
Laboratory of Tribology
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Technology Delft