https://github.com/omikhleia/printoptions.sile

Image tools for professional printers with the SILE typesetting system.
https://github.com/omikhleia/printoptions.sile

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Image tools for professional printers with the SILE typesetting system.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/omikhleia/printoptions.sile
• Owner: Omikhleia
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-08-27T19:21:03.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-29T21:50:43.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-29T23:53:07.143Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: print, sile, typesetting
• Language: Lua
• Homepage:
• Size: 16.6 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# printoptions.sile

[![license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/Omikhleia/printoptions.sile?label=License)](LICENSE)

[![Luacheck](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/Omikhleia/printoptions.sile/luacheck.yml?branch=main&label=Luacheck&logo=Lua)](https://github.com/Omikhleia/printoptions.sile/actions?workflow=Luacheck)

[![Luarocks](https://img.shields.io/luarocks/v/Omikhleia/printoptions.sile?label=Luarocks&logo=Lua)](https://luarocks.org/modules/Omikhleia/printoptions.sile)

This package for the [SILE](https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile) typesetting

system helps tuning image resolution and vector rasterization, as often requested by

professional printers and print-on-demand services.

The package requires Inkscape, GraphicsMagick and Ghostscript to be available

on your system, and uses them to convert vector files to rasters and to downsize,

if need be, raster images to the targeted resolution.

If they are not available, everything goes as usual, without conversion.

Some professional printers require the whole PDF to be flattened without transparency,

which is not addressed here. There are other tools, better suited to that task, which

may be used once you have a final PDF document. Most of the time, it results, however,

in a much heavier PDF (in terms of size), as pages may have to be fully rasterized

to remove any layering and compute flattened transparencies.

This package aims at something simpler, would you want to reduce the resolution

(for proofreaders and reviewers) for a smaller PDF; or to ensure, even for print quality,

that images are not indecently oversized and the rasterized vectors still look good

and properly ordered on the page.

## Installation

These packages require SILE v0.14 or upper.

Installation relies on the **luarocks** package manager.

To install the latest version, you may use the provided “rockspec”:

```

luarocks install -printoptions.sile

```

(Refer to the SILE manual for more detailed 3rd-party package installation information.)

## Usage

The in-code package documentation may be useful.

A readable version of the documentation is included in the User Manual for

the [resilient.sile](https://github.com/Omikhleia/resilient.sile) collection

of classes and packages.

## License

All SILE-related code and samples in this repository are released under the MIT License, (c) 2022 Omikhleia.