From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4722 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: a better pdf clock Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 09:16:53 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010523091653.015125f0@server-1> References: <3.0.6.32.20010521120535.01206880@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395365 28160 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:49:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:49:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Xander Schrijen In-Reply-To: <200105222124.f4MLOOo11557@smtp25.wxs.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4722 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4722 At 11:24 PM 5/22/01 +0200, Xander Schrijen wrote: >Actually, I don't think OS X has built-in PDF rendering as per >the PDF specs. Rather, its native imaging model very closely >resembles that of PDF, and there are system APIs to read/write >content to PDF. But rendering embedded fonts, for instance, >didn't work in the beta, and I guess javascript doesn't work in >the current version. Adam Twardoch told me that the font stuff in OS X is kind of hackery and will be replaced in a next relesase, so maybe the subset problem is related to that. Maybe the pdf they use is also pdf/x conforming. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------