OpenOffice.org 3.1 anti-aliasing in graphics for smoother lines

For someone who loves Draw like I do, this is very nice. All the shapes you draw are now smoother in 3.1 with anti-aliasing.

I know that the reduction in the blogging software will throw this off a bit, but I think it'll be helpful. Here's the basic drawing.

And here's what it looks like at 1000% magnification, in Draw. Very smooth.

Now, keep in mind that if you're exporting to Photoshop, Gimp, or other raster programs, that you still need to be careful. The left shows the same drawing exported as PNG, the right a JPG. So far so good, or at least not terrible.

Here's what they look like at 400% magnification in Photoshop. PNG (first) and JPG (second) both look kind of icky.

If you are exporting a Draw drawing, your best best is to EPS, or even PDF.

Here's an EPS drawing exported to Photoshop, rasterized, then magnified to 400% like the others.

 

And here's an exported PDF which is openable in Photoshop as a raster file. For my money, it looks better than the EPS, at least at that magnification. It doesn't matter much if you're just using it at the size it came in at for the EPS. I do all my book covers in Draw, then export to Photoshop to rasterize and turn into JPGs for the printer.

Comments

[NickF]

Isn't it best to export it as svg? Modern browser support it, and it can be conveniently converted to bitmap formats, if necessary...

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[Solveig]

Hi Nick,

I fiddled with SVG while writing this and it doesn't seem to have much import or export use. It will open up an SVG file in text, with the instructions, if that's any use...

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[Lewis Davies]

My aliasing problem with OpenOffice is with the screen display of vector images. I have a logo that consists of a simple graphic and 12 point text which was converted to curves to avoid font substitution. This graphic will be used as a header on Office documents that will be widely distributed to people using both Mac and PC computers and Microsoft Office as well as OpenOffice.

In Microsoft Office the Windows metafile (wmf) looks best on the screen on both Mac and PC and always prints best. The second best is a png file at 600 dpi. These files were created in Corel Draw.

In OpenOffice the wmf vector file is very badly aliased when viewed on the screen, but prints with excellent results as in the other cases.

I have 2 questions: 1) is there any way to control the aliasing in the screen display, and 2) any suggested solutions that will both print well, and produce good screen displays.

Lewis

[metin2 yang]

In OpenOffice the wmf vector file is very badly aliased when viewed on the screen, but prints with excellent results as in the other cases.