Re: OSX 10.3.3 & Printing PDFs
Re: OSX 10.3.3 & Printing PDFs
- Subject: Re: OSX 10.3.3 & Printing PDFs
- From: Stéphane Beaudry <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 10:47:30 -0400
The PDF technology used by MacOS 10.3 (Quartz) supports two kinds of
encoding: not compressed and JPEG compression (which reduces image
quality). Although before last June (and until June 2004 in Japan) you
had to pay a license to use LZW compression, it is a bit surprising
that Flate (zip) compression is still not supported, since it is
freely available and much better than no compression at all.
Stephane Beaudry
R & D
TGLC Color Management Inc.
www.tglc.com
On Wednesday, May 5, 2004, at 09:36 America/Montreal,
email@hidden wrote:
Hoping to begin a discussion as to the advantages and drawbacks of
creating PDFs using OSX 10.3.3 instead of Adobe Acrobat or PitStop.
Although PDF is OS X's native file format, creating PDF's through the
OS
is not very optimal. Maybe OK for documents and interdepartmental
memos,
but for prepress and things of that nature you will be better off using
Acrobat. You have a lot more options with things like compression, etc.
I could be off base, but that is my take on the issue.
Eric Bullock
Color Guy
Hecht's/Strawbridge's Advertising
685 N. Glebe Road
Arlington, VA 22203
703.247.2391
email@hidden
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