Hi there

I have a variable image which links to a series of QR codes in a directory. The merge works well enough, but I need to scale the image down a little from 2.6cm or so to 2cm to fit my document.

No problem with the sizing - I've just used the 'Fit in Frame' option and made the bounding box the required size.

The problem is that PSM applies some optimisation to the graphic when it scales it, so the QR code is no longer a nice crisp blank-and-white, it has grey edges to the lines.

Is there a way to turn off this optimisation effect?

Thanks


UPDATE - I've zoomed into the image once resized and it actually looks fine on-screen. I've printed as a pdf and it still looks fine, and then printed that pdf to a hard copy and it's still OK.

The problem only occurs when I print directly to a printer. I've tried a couple of different ones now.

This may be outside the bounds of the forum now as it appears to be a printer issue, but are there any suggestions to help me?

Thanks

I assume this only happens when you use a non-PostScript printer driver, like PCL? If your printer manufacturer has both non-PostScript and PostScript drivers available for download, try the PostScript driver instead.

I haven't been able to find a way to prevent that effect, sorry.

Sorry for late reply - I've got around the problem by running the images I want to use through the Xnview nconvert program.

This enables me to batch re-size all the files I want so I can then use as variable images in PSM as normal without any quality issues.

Cheers