[magick-users] avoiding antialiasing when composing a small jpeg into an A4 pdf

Anthony Thyssen anthony at griffith.edu.au
Mon Mar 3 17:58:14 PST 2008


Renee Iova on  wrote...
| hi, all!
| 
| the situation: i have a jpeg image and an A4 pdf file (from text). 
| i just need to compose them, which works inherenetly, but the 
| letters in the composed image are quite blurred afterwards.
| 
| turning off antialiasing with "+antialias" didn't help. 
| 
| does anyone have a clue ? it would be no problem for me to
| switch things off in the image magick sources, but cannot
| afford the time to search things. (plz don't misunderstand -
| i only ask for the  source coordinates, if you know it by 
| rote!)
| 
| any help would be greatly appreciated!
| 
| 
See IM Examples
   http://imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#postscript

You need to use a higher resoution (density) and resize smaller to
sharpen the results, or adjust resolution to the output device you are
planing to use (high quality printer)

Also see  -resample
   http://imagemagick.org/Usage/resize/#resample


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