[ale] LightScribe for Linux

[Rich Faulkner]

Dittos on all of the above.  It's all about resolution.  Print graphics
run 150-300 dpi (w/300+ the norm).  High resolution with anti-aliasing
will likely solve many of your problems.  

.gif and .jpg are raster (bitmap) file types.  Anything you do from
Inkscape will have to be exported from vector to raster and may have
some things lost in the translation.  I've had issues with other
programs (namely CorelDraw) not doing well exporting vector to raster
images.  In that case I save vector work in a native format and open it
in raster program that understands the vector format.  That usually
yields good results.  (For some reason Corel algorithms are weird that
way).

Enjoy pushing pixels!   RinL


On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 13:53 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> 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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