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From: Henning Hraban Ramm <angerweit@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: MacOS X PDF (Quartz) was: xmpl/base.rb modification
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:26:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212201926.58361.angerweit@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20021220095715.028fccb0@server-1>

Am Freitag, 20. Dezember 2002 09:57 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> How complete is the native functionality? Does it support hyperlinks? Is
> there a ref manual?

MacOS X's "Quartz" PDF layer is a strange mix, it contains not even 1.2 
completely... It doesn't support most of what you need in prepress -- that's 
why Distiller for MacOS X will certainly come (Acrobat itself is already 
carbonated). Widgets aren't supported as well.

In detail:
-- no Type 3 fonts (that is, most traditional TeX PDFs will not work)
-- no transfer curves, screening settings, OPI support
-- no trapping, no overprint settings
-- no filling patterns, smooth shades, transparency
-- no mask paths
-- no output profile (output intent) possible (needed for PDF/X-3)
-- no JBIG2 compression
-- no hypertext functions (links, widgets...)

(AFAIK this list is valid for 10.2, but don't know exactly about Quartz 
Extreme)

Grüßlis vom Hraban! (Writing under Linux on a Mac G4...) 
-- 
http://www.fiee.net
http://www.ramm.ch
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-20 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-17 17:31 something new, user-interfacing to context Hans Hagen
2002-12-17 23:07 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2002-12-19 14:26 ` xmpl/base.rb modification (was: Re: something new, user-interfacing to context) Adam Lindsay
2002-12-19 15:26   ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-19 16:04     ` Bruce D'Arcus
2002-12-19 16:32       ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-19 16:08     ` Adam Lindsay
2002-12-19 16:31       ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-19 16:51         ` Adam Lindsay
2002-12-20  8:57           ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-20 18:26             ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2002-12-19 17:48   ` Otared Kavian
2002-12-19 23:20     ` Adam Lindsay
2002-12-20  8:59     ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-20 13:03       ` Otared Kavian
2002-12-20 16:47         ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-20 18:37           ` Otared Kavian
2002-12-21 12:29             ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-23  6:17 ` something new, user-interfacing to context Guy Worthington
2002-12-23  9:15   ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-23 10:01   ` John Culleton
2002-12-24  2:55     ` Guy Worthington
2003-01-02 13:08       ` scarso luigi

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