Hi,
I don't know if I need to make a pdf document with 1200dpi, but I've got a problem working with Inkscape 0.45.1 (march 2007) and some virtual pdf printers (PdfCreator, Bullzip, pdf995 and primopdf).
I made a work (a cover for a price-book, greather then the A3 page format) with a gradient in background, images used as pattern (in circle shapes), text as curves, a lettering and it's blurred copy. (here a low-res : http://i26.tinypic.com/b3wpeb.jpg)
Planning for a plotter output printing I made a page with 3 copies of work and sent the file to the service.
Usually I send a pdf file made with PdfCreator, with the default 600 dpi resolution.
All right the pdf printer made the usual good job, except for a little noise on the blur effect and on the gradient, a little bit pixelized (concentric shapes) but not so evident.
The problem went trying to do a 1200Dpi pdf output and a B1 format page. I think that with a 1200 Dpi pdf I can obtain a better gredient, instead I had got a lot of problems and errors with the 1200Dpi resolution.
1) 25 min. spooling with a 6Gb file
2) a Pdf with two blank pages: fist portrait and second landscape, with the message text : ERROR: rangecheck OFFENDING COMMAND: string STACK: 100200 /mystring 24 64 33400
3) Sometimes, after spooling, there is no output in file, printing task simply disappears :-)
I tried with different pdf printers too and with different page formats and with simplified objects, but with large documents it's always the same result.
Of course I tried too with other graphic programs (an old copy of corel draw ver. 9, and of freehand ver. 10) with the same elements (gradients and so on) and b1 page but without any problem.
At the end, I exported the work in a png file at 1200Dpi. 5 hours of computing but really a wonderful 130 Mb picture (47244 X 33402 pixel), with a perfect gradient and a perfect blur.
In your opinion can I send it to the service ?
Ross (Windows Xp Sp2, Pentium P4-3Ghz, 1Gb Ram)