PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________
At 10:09 PM 4/14/2004, Rich Sprague wrote:
I used to make PDFs of hundreds of magazine pages built with a combination of elements, including EPS logos and fonts that had been converted to paths. With Acrobat 4, the portions of the page with EPS files always looked like crap.
Correct, because Acrobat 4 didn't anti-alias vector lines...
In Acrobat 5 it was an option, off by default.
In Acrobat 6, it's on w/no option to disable.
Perhaps some of the fonts were non-commercial varieties, or type 3 (as I remember, they always looked bad in PDFs, no matter where they originated from).
Same problem - T3 fonts are either bitmap to begin with OR they are non-hinted vectors that need Anti-aliasing to look good.
Actually, Mac OS X Preview has some pretty cool technology in there to do a really nice job of screen rendering Type 3 fonts...Acrobat 6 is better than 5, but not as good as Preview.
Leonard
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Rosenthol <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax)
To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
