<OT> Converting tiff to ps: A question of quality

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on May 06, Joel Hammer managed to emit:
> This tiff file came originally from a screen capture with xv.
> I made the conversion with convert sample.tiff sample.ps.
> I can't find any options on convert.
> I have done the following:
> Used gimp to save the file as ps. Still bad quality when viewed with gv.
> Used xv to print the file in ps format to a file.
> When this file was viewed with gv, still bad. BUT, when this same file was
> viewed with xv, it looked very nice. 
> And, when I used gv to print out the file, it looked fine on the printout.
> SO, the converted tiff file only looks bad when viewed with gv or gimp. It
> prints fine with gv and looks fine in xv.
> AND, when converted to pdf (ps2pdf) and viewed in acroread, it looks a lot
> better than with gv but not quite as good as xv.
> SO, this raises the issue of resolution in gv. I tried the fix of editing
> Xresources as suggested in man gs, but that didn't do any thing. This
> must be a setting somewhere in ghostview regarding X11 resolution,
> but darned if I can figure it out.  Would someone do me the favor of
> going to my "web page" (don't laugh)[ http://hammershome.com ] , and downloading the
> file  and seeing how it looks on their gv? Any suggestion for increasing
> resolution with gv? 
> (To get to the directory with the sample files, from the main web page just click on
> the lowest picture, the grey one.)

It looks to me that the scaling is wrong, by about 20% +/-.

Kurt
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