| Re: color_quan(...., Cube=6) makes white white, but ... [message #30493 is a reply to message #30384] |
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On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:15:35 -0600, David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Steve Smith<steven_smith> (nobody@nowhere.com) writes:
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>> It's not that I consider it difficult, it just isn't very easy to exchange
>> these types of files. Most of the authors I would give these figures to may
>> not appreciate the fact that though the screen image looks _bad_, the printed
>> output will look better. A lot of conference proceedings now use a web-sub-
>> mission process that converts the file to pdf, since I'm not the one who
>> will submit the document, I'm concerned that a .ps figure would not fare well
>> through this process.
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> On the contrary, it is always those *other* image
> types that give the PDF Distiller fits. Those Adobe
> guys know PostScript. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
Hi David-
Oh, I believe that Adobe should know postscript (as I think they were one of
the principal developers of Postscript), it's just that fear of the unknown.
The PC version of Word always shows PS as a blank box (the Mac Version could
handle it), and I've always been uncomfortable with that. I know if you add the
preview, it will show a picture, but can this be scaled within word similar to
other figures transferred into Word via vector formats like WMF (which I
_think_ is what comes off WinXX's clipboard)? If I make a figure, give it to a
co-author, they may want to re-size it when they format their document. They're
not going to know or much less care about the subtleties of document formats,
fonts or printing. It's a WYSIWYG world now, not like when I was in grad
school: we used IDL for all postscript output and inserted this into LaTeX
documents. The output was beautiful, far exceeding what could be done with Word
and a PC at the time. But I don't run in to too many who know, much less use
TeX anymore :P !
>
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