| Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files [message #74025 is a reply to message #74024] |
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JM[1]
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Registered: October 2009
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> PDF, by its nature, is not very amenable to be embedded in other
> things. That is the whole point of the E in EPS (encapsulated).
Perhaps on other platforms, but definitely not so on Mac OS X. The OS
X imaging system has a layer that "correlates well with the PDF object
graph". What it means is, you can drop PDF graphics with ease into
Pages, Keynote and Omnigraffle. And compiling a TeX document is much,
much quicker if the referenced graphics are already PDF - the graphics
are just "stitched-in" to the compiled PDF rather than having to be
distilled from EPS.
A neat trick that you can do with any PDF document (or graphic) is, in
Preview, select any rectangular region, cmd-C to copy it to the paste
buffer. Then, in say, Keynote, cmd-V and the object appears -- full
PDF (i.e. vector) character preserved. This also means that graphics
are *not* degraded in any way at all. It really is a breeze to
produce consistently high-quality PDF copy, and I can't imagine any
one who can freely choose [1] opting for something less.
JM
[1] Stasi-like IT support notwithstanding.
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