Re: [WinMac] PDFWriter vs. Distiller
Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]Adobe.COM)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:45:36 -0400
At 10:51 AM -0400 10/8/98, Ari Davidow wrote:
>I haven't used PDFWriter in a while, but my experience on both
>Mac and Windows, was that it do a very poor job of handlng graphics.
>I would not use it in any case that included anything other than text.
>
Depends on what type of graphics and under what context.
As I mentioned before, since PDFWriter is a QD/GDI driver, all
bitmapped graphics will end up getting converted to native format
(PICT/WMF) by the application in order to send them to the driver AND THEN
PDFWriter needs to convert them BACK to something it can digest (JPEG, I
think).
In the case of vector graphics, they should come out pretty well
since PDFWriter converts to the QD/GDI command to the equivalent PS command
- but you do lose PS resolution.
LDR
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