Re: Converting a PICT file to PDF
Re: Converting a PICT file to PDF
- Subject: Re: Converting a PICT file to PDF
- From: Chris Gehlker <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 07:37:36 -0700
On 10/11/01 3:48 AM, "email@hidden"
<email@hidden> wrote:
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Hi all,
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I am trying to convert some PICT files to PDF for inclusion to latex
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documents using TeXShop. I first used AppleWorks to "print" and preview
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them, and it worked quite well except for the overall graphic size which
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has to be some printer paper size (A4 or whatever). As I don't know how
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to clip A4 PDF graphics, I defined a custom page size in a printer
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description PPD file and reprinted them using this custom paper. It
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worked.
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Unfortunatly, I have many PICT files with various sizes and I don't want
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to define a custom page size for each of them. What I tried next was to
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initialize a NSImage with a PICT file, put it in a NSImageView subclass
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instance (with a redefined drawRect:) and use NSImage's
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-dataWithPDFInsideRect: or NSPrintOperation's +PDFOperationWithView:.
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Both ways give a bitmap PDF result and I can't figure how to get a
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vector PDF.
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Am I doing something the wrong way ? Am I expecting too much from
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NSPICTImageRep ? Do I have to write a PICT parser ? Can I do what I want
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from AppleWorks ?
I don't know much about AppleWorks. I think a PICT transcoder is a lot
easier to write than a PICT parser since you can let QT Image
(de)compressors do all the grunt work. There is a general movie transcoder
that works for stills in the code on MacTech's site. Check out Vol 17, Issue
2, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids". It's Carbon, Windows and Classic. If you need
a Cocoa transcoder, contact me next week. I should have one finished by
then.
Oh, If you have a QT Pro registration #, $30 from Apple, you can use the QT
player as a transcoder.
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