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Seshat thickens lines, cleans files and puts them on press sheets
Seshat now thickens lines too thin to print, turns text into outlines, brings heavy pictures down to the resolution the print needs, cleans forms and comments into the page, flattens transparency, and imposes files on press sheets and as booklets.
By Rekhu
2 min read
The last steps before the press, now in Seshat too.
Ready for the press
- Lines too thin to print drawn at the minimum the press shows, hairlines included. The check offers this fix on its own.
- Text to outlines, so no font is needed to print it.
- Pictures far heavier than needed brought down to the resolution the print needs, and the file made smaller. No other fix touches a picture's resolution, so nothing is lost without asking.
- Clean files: form fields and comments drawn into the page as the customer saw them, or left out; hidden layers, scripts, attachments and links removed.
- Transparency flattened for presses that cannot take it.
Imposition
- As many items on a sheet as fit: business cards, flyers or labels with their bleed on SRA3, SRA2, B2, 70x100 or any size, turned when more fit that way, with your gap and margin, the same item repeated or pages in sequence.
- Booklets: pages in saddle-stitch order, two to a side, padded with blank pages to a multiple of four.
Every one of these is a fix in the same call as the rest, explained by task on rekhu.com/docs/seshat. Nothing changes in your code: rekhu/core 0.6 for Laravel and Node sends them as they are. Code list 1.6.