Hi David,
The problems with Word's PDF importing are not a question of default
settings. The problem is that the outline fonts and line graphics in
PDF's are automatically rasterized when you import them -- and
rasterized at an unprintably low resolution. There is, as far as I
know, no way to change this behavior.
When you import a PDF into Pages, or InDesign, or any decently
PDF-aware OS X app, the outline fonts and line graphics are not
rasterized and remain fully scaleable.
- Darcy
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On 21 May 2005, at 5:16 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 21 May 2005 at 16:59, Darcy James Argue wrote:
I don't have AppleWorks so I can't test, but this sounds
similar to the problem importing PDFs into Word, which has absolutely
awful graphics handling.
Word's handling of graphics on the PC is exemplary in terms of
ability to successfully rescale and sharply render all the common PC
graphics formats and allow them to be resized without loss of detail.
The UI sucks, however, defaulting to all the wrong settings when you
insert the graphics.
So far as I know, though, even Word 2003 can't import PDFs. If it
were part of the OS, as with Word on OS X, then I expect it would be
supported.
I'm actually rather surpised that the Mac Word development team
hasn't done a better job. Are you sure the results are just bad with
Word's default import settings, as they are on the PC?
--
David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
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