From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4557 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader 5.0 available / Ghostscript 7.0 available Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:25:52 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3ADEBD30.7BE90ED5@elvenkind.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395213 26704 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:46:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:46:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Tobias Burnus Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4557 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4557 Hi Tobias, > > Does anybody know what the "illustrator 9 graphics that contain > > transparancy" really are? That sounds like something that is potentially > > interesting. > Note that you only wrote to me not to the list. Corrected that later by sending the message to the list as well :) > Well there is: > http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/technotes/acrobatpdf.html > > PDF: Changes from Version 1.3 to 1.4 > #5409 03/26/01 (PDF: 781 KB / 236 pages) > > Which contains a chapter: "Transparency in PDF" Just browsed through it. Sounds like the only two programs in the world that are capable of providing the correct (read: implemented in Reader) output are Photoshop and Illustrator. I get the impression that the specs are a straight conversion from AP/AI's layer/channel options, and that Reader is actually sharing code with these programs. It also leads me to expect that the Linux version will be some months away and will reach new heights on the bug per feature ratio. :( -- groeten, Taco