Printed material (like books and ewsletters) requires high quality graphics, bitmap graphics is generally not acceptable. Also layout of text and graphics is usually manually tuned to create pleasant to read flow of text and diagrams.
In most cases GOWrite should be used to create graphics needed and some publishing tool (such as QuarkXPressTM or Scribus) or word processor (such as Microsoft(r) Word) should be used to produce final result. GOWrite does not try to offer tools for making publication layouts, but it produces excellent graphics for use in publishing tools.
Number of printing-quality vector graphics formats are available: WMF, SVG and EPS. All of these offer high quality, but compatibility with platforms and programs vary.
There is no single correct way to make printed material. Things that should be decided are:
Layout program used
Graphics format used (SVG,EPS,WMF)
Format of final product
Unfortunately none of these can be decided independently, as programs have different capabilities with different graphic formats and different output formats. Only sure way to ensure good quality is to do testing with desired combination of formats, programs and their settings.
Various factors should be considered:
Is material just printed, or also viewed as PS or PDF format?
Can we assume users / printing has same fonts present as material creator?
Is size of document issue?
Is clipboard or file used to transfer graphics?
Many different tools can create PDF files. Best results depend on exact method used. Following iterates some of possible method.
Full version of Adobe Acrobat can be used to create PDF files. As I don't have access to this tool, I cannot comment on its use.
OpenOffice contains filter to create PDF files.
In Windows best way to create PDF file is to export from GOWrite to HTML and WMF format. Opening this HTML file gives comments and all graphics readily in one document.
In Linux good results cannot be get at the moment. Export to HTML and EPS format works, but unfortunately OpenOffice.org converts EPS diagrams into bitmap-based diagrams in PDF.
Scribus publishing program is free and produces good results with GOWrite. Scribus works both Windows and Linux.
Either of EPS format or SVG format can be used to import graphics data into Scribus. HTML comments can be imported into Scribus, but it may be more efficient to use some text editor to create or modify comments.
Most systems make it possible to print from word processor to postscript (PS) file. This is can be used when only printed material is needed, as resulting file tends to be big.
Following describes more details on various formats and corresponding tools available
Word processors are most convenient tools for writing books. In Windows WMF graphics can be copied from GOWrite 2 to most word processing programs.
Graphics quality is excellent and editing is very convenient, as results can be seen immediately.
ESP graphics can be transferred from GOWrite 2 to most publication program using EPS file(s).
In this solution GOWrite is used to export diagrams, resulting in multiple of files. Publication program is then used to import EPS files. Graphics quality is excellent, but this method may be bit less convenient compared to clipboard.
This solution is most portable, as it is not tied to any operating system and EPS format is well supported in many publishing tools.
SVG graphics format can be used instead of EPS. There is no simple way to determine which gives better results, so practical testing may be necessary.
Text Font handling in graphics file (SVG, EPS, WMF) affects number of factors:
Size of graphics file.
Viewing quality on screen.
Capability to show in devices without specific font.
Exact text positioning in graphics.
Readability of move numbers in black stones.
Text (including move numbers) can be stored as symbols (like 'A'). This produces small files which may show well in screen. Unfortunately text position tend to vary and result depends heavily on presence of correct fonts. Some layout programs can embed these fonts into their output, which mitigates problem to a degree.
Text as outlines is most fail-safe. This produces files which can be shown in any device and result is never bad. However files are bigger, and quality in screen is not as good (due to lack of text hinting in low resolutions, like screen). In high resolution devices GOWrite can adjust oulined move numbers in black stones thicker, which improves their readability a lot.
The way of font export can be controlled in GOWrite in format settings dialog.