RE: [Pnm2ppa-devel] pnm2ppa bug?

[Duncan H. <f.d...@wo...>]

Hi,

I'm the maintainer, though pnm2ppa is in a
"minimal maintenance" mode now.

I have tried in the past to eliminate these artifacts,
but they seem to be related to slight mechanical
errors in positioning the print head, rather that a
straightforward "off by one" programming error.

The windows driver overlaps the areas printed
which makes such artifacts less visible. pnm2ppa doesn't.

I don't have any time to try to further improve the
structure on pnm2ppa.   These are now obsolete printers.
pnm2ppa is OK for many purposes, but printing photo-quality
prints is not one.

Ideally, gimp-print could be adapted to provide a ppa-backend,
using code from pnm2ppa, but the easiest thing is to get 
a more modern printer for high quality graphics....


pnm2ppa-1.12 or pnm2ppa-1.04 are your choices (1.12 has big modifications
to try to make image prints better)

Sorry I can't be of more help.
If you really want to play with the code, I could give advice,
but I dont recomemnd it.

Get a better printer for high-quality images.

Duncan Haldane




On 25-Aug-2003 Niki Waibel wrote:
> i have 2 major issues with pnm2ppa.
> 
> the problems are some sort of difficult to explain.
> i made a scan of a printout and descriped the
> troubles on:
> http://www.rootshell.be/~nwaibel/printer.html
> 
> have you seen this thin lines before?
> 
> i am not (yet) subscribed to any pnm2ppa list.
> so pls answer to nik...@gm....
> 
> niki
> -- 
> niki w. waibel - system administrator @ newlogic technologies ag
> 
>