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Re: Blurred display of images in PDFs created from EPS on Mac OS X [message #42433 is a reply to message #42304]

Fri, 04 February 2005 07:36

jm
Messages: 32
Registered: April 2003

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Ben,

The code is not the problem; it's an OSX quirk. Image smoothing seems
to be built-in to Aqua.
There's nothing wrong with the PDFs produced by OSX apps (other than
being a bit bloated
compared to Adobe distilled PDFs). In fact, in this example screen
grab:

http://www.iesd.dmu.ac.uk/~jm/pickup/grab.gif

the EPS was converted to PDF using the Preview application - which
shows it here mushy.
The false colour map (byte-scaled array) is displayed (written to the
Postscript device)
using TV just like any other image. It just happens to have small
pixel dimensions.

The mushy lower image is what the PDF looks like in Keynote also. The
upper is how it
should look (displayed here in Acrobat). Frustratingly, if you hold
down the mouse
whilst resizing in Keynote the image looks OK... until you let go of
the mouse button
and the smoothing mushes up the image again. PDFs created by Keynote
are fine (just as
they are with Preview). But it rules out using native Keynote for a
presentation - which is
a pity (unless I can turn the smoothing off).

Niggles aside, the transition from Solaris to OSX has been a joy. The
only application I miss
having is Framemaker.

Regards,

-John Mardaljevic

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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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