[Design-team] wiki tutorials

[Luya Tshimbalanga]

Actually those tutorials are from other sources. I created a wiki gathering
your email so I will add them on the list after cleaning the layout.
Https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Luya/tutorials

Of course contributors are welcome.

Cheers,
Luya
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On Aug 25, 2015 3:33 PM, "Andrew Walton" <andrewfixcomputer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Luya,
>
> I was just having a look at your tutorials, quite impressive, you've been
> busy.
>
> In your "use Scribus to convert" tutorial you mention that different
> programs have a different idea of how big an A4 page is. I have a
> "possible" reason for you. Some programs have a set default for how many
> dots per inch your image is supposed to be regardless of what you think.
> Other programs will pull that information from whatever printer is plugged
> into the computer at the time.
>
> This is where Windows never got a break in the print world, Windows
> machines all pull the dots per inch settings straight from the printer, and
> then you take the file to someone else who uses a different printer and all
> your sizes shift and the fonts drop out.
>
> With Macintosh files on Macintosh computers the dots per inch setting was
> a rock hard unbreakable rule and the fonts were always included in the file
> so it didn't matter if the printer didn't have your fonts, he would most
> certainly have them after opening your file. "Legally" he's obliged to
> delete them again after doing your job but you know how it is, sometimes
> you're too busy and forget. :)
>
> So between Mac computers your image was guaranteed to be exactly the same
> as you created it. Through the mid 90's until they talked to intel (iMac)
> this was the only thing that kept them in business.
>
> It's also another cheap trick I use to protect my original photos, I've
> set my dots per inch  in the photos to 1800. This won't stop anyone that
> knows what they're doing but if the average mug tries to print any of my
> pictures a 10 megapixel photo comes out the size of a postage stamp.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew.
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