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At 07:45 AM 4/1/2004, Mauro Boscarol wrote:
I think the printing path of Acrobat 6.0.1 in Panther (raster CUPS printer) is the same as prepress applications (Photoshop, FreeHand, Illustrator, Quark, etc.) in Jaguar, i.e.
No, that is not correct.
Acrobat 6.0.1 uses a NEW API call in Panther to be able PS directly into the print stream for it to work on all printers in a more compatible way than previous versions.
Acrobat 6.0 and the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite (can't speak for other applications) will check if the printer is PS and if so, send PS - otherwise it pre-rasterizes the data and sends a raster image to the printer.
Now in Panther prepress applications follows the path
Again, there are some new API calls for Panther that an application MAY choose to take. You can send PS to non-PS printers, you can even send a raw PDF into the system. Acrobat does NOT send raw PDF, because Acrobat supports a LOT more PDF features than Quartz does and therefore just can't pass it along - BUT it can send PS along...
but Acrobat 6.0.1 prints the other way (and in fact don't support Save PDF nor Preview).
Nor do any of the Adobe CS applications or Quark.
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