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Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X [message #42415 is a reply to message #42304]

Mon, 07 February 2005 08:32

Karl Schultz
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Registered: October 1999

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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 06:05:17 -0800, jm wrote:

> That would be a last resort. I'd hope that maybe there will some
> option
> introduced at a later date (Tiger?).
>
> As Acrobat displays it fine, I guess it's "hard-wired" into
> applications at
> present. Adobe seem to have diverged a little from Apple's default
> imaging model - if so, I can see why.
>
> Here's the original PDF if anyone wants to try out any ideas - view it
> in both Acrobat and any of Preview/Keynote/Pages:
>
> http://www.iesd.dmu.ac.uk/~jm/pickup/lum_int093_92_12h00.pdf
>
> I don't think it's anything to do with how the PDF was created.
> It's 'simply' Aqua is trying to be helpful: "Here is a graphic
> comprised
> of only a fews tens of image (i.e. scaleable postscript) pixels shown
> using tens of thousands of (LCD) display pixels - I will smooth it out
> to look *nicer*".
>
> -John

This discussion was also posted to uk.com.sys.mac where a
promising-looking solution involving creating a PDF workflow with image
interpolation turned off is discussed.

Karl

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		Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: jm on Thu, 03 February 2005 09:03
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: Norbert Hahn on Tue, 08 February 2005 01:36
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: jm on Tue, 08 February 2005 04:16
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: Karl Schultz on Mon, 07 February 2005 10:50
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: jm on Mon, 07 February 2005 10:12
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: Edd Edmondson on Mon, 07 February 2005 09:00
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: Edd Edmondson on Mon, 07 February 2005 08:57
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: jm on Mon, 07 February 2005 08:50
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: Edd Edmondson on Mon, 07 February 2005 08:49
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: jm on Mon, 07 February 2005 08:47
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: Karl Schultz on Mon, 07 February 2005 08:39
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: Karl Schultz on Mon, 07 February 2005 08:32
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: Norbert Hahn on Mon, 07 February 2005 08:17
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: jm on Mon, 07 February 2005 06:05
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: Edd Edmondson on Mon, 07 February 2005 05:17
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: jm on Fri, 04 February 2005 07:36
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: K. Bowman on Wed, 09 February 2005 11:04
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: jm on Wed, 09 February 2005 02:22
		Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Tue, 08 February 2005 18:50

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