[gl2ps] Re: PDF not same as rendered image

[David Thompson]

Really? I'm running 10.3.5 and see the problem; however, I am running 
XFree86 4.4 underneath instead of the standard install from Apple. I 
did this to try and fix another problem I was having. Maybe I'll go 
back as see if I can still reproduce it.

As for Apple's PDF rendering code, thanks for that note. I was 
wondering why most of my PDFs wouldn't show up. I could see them in 
Acrobat but not in Preview and also couldn't print them. If I use 
Acrobat to export to PS for my printer and then distill them, then I 
can view and print them within the OS; however, now I see it just 
converts them to a jpeg image. Do you know of any other way to make 
them compatible? I tried using Acrobat's reduce file size (for 
Acrobat 4) but that didn't work either.

Just as a side note, I also couldn't see them in Adobe Illustrator or 
create swfs with pdf2swf. Maybe they have the same limitations as the 
OS?

David

>David Thompson wrote:
>
>>Oops, I should have paid more attention to the archives. This is 
>>actually the bug with Mac OS X showing up. Sorry about that. 
>>Anybody have a bug id number for the bug with Apple? Have they said 
>>anything about it?
>>
>
>It seems to have been fixed by one of the recent Panther updates
>(everything works fine here on 10.3.4 and 10.3.5).
>
>The bugs in Apple's PDF rendering code are still not fixed, though
>(for example, Preview.app doesn't support '/ShadingType 4', which means
>that you need to use Acrobat or ghostscript to view/print the files).
>
>C.
>
>--
>Christophe Geuzaine
>Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech
>geuzaine at acm.caltech.edu - http://geuz.org


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