[ale] LightScribe for Linux

[Lightner, Jeff]

Not sure what LightScribe is but to answer you question about other
image editors you might want to look at ImageMagick.   It has quite a
few utilities that I've found handy when playing with images.  

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 1:54 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] LightScribe for Linux

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 13:46 -0400, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
> Anyone familiar with LightScribe for Linux, such as "4L-gui"?
> I have a hard time getting reasonably sharp lettering using the
> "Gimp".
> Problem is that "4L-gui" will only accept things like "gif", "jpeg",
> etc,
> but no regular text or "postcript".
> 
> I know there are LightScribe forums, but they use Windows and Nero,
> which I would like to avoid if possible.
> 
> What image editor besides Gimp would work? 

You could try InkScape.

However, I expect that you're actually running into one of two problems:

  1.  You are exporting the image from the GIMP in a low resolution,
      such as 72 dpi (a standard resolution for Web graphics, but not
      for print purposes).

  2.  Your drive is not capable of extremely high resolution on
      LightScribe imaging.

Try to create the image as a 300 dpi (or even 600 dpi) graphic, and try
using that graphic as the source for the process.  Also make sure that
you use the highest quality setting, which will take about 20 to 30
minutes to create the lightscribe label.

	--- Mike

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