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Thanks for clarifying this, Leonard.
Rich
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From: On Behalf Of Leonard Rosenthol
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 6:17 PM
To: Rich Sprague; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PDF-Basics] EPS to PDF
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
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