Re(2): Apple PDF's and Illustrator.
Re(2): Apple PDF's and Illustrator.
- Subject: Re(2): Apple PDF's and Illustrator.
- From: Olaf Drümmer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 00:02:10 +0100
>> Could you possibly send me a small sample PDF offlist? I have an idea.
>
>Sure, but why ? Just open TextEdit, type in some text (colored if you
>want an RGB rather than grayscale profile) and then do Print and then
>Save as PDF...
I consider this a less than firendly reply. It was you who asked for advice.
Anyway - Illustrator does not claim to be a PDF editor, it only happens
to use PDF as its file format. This means it is OK if Illustrator expects
certain aspects in a PDF to be present in a certain way so that it can
deal with them. BTW - there are a couple of PDF features that Illustrator
cannot read properly. Nevertheless this doesn;t mean Illustrator is
broken or buggy, as it doesn't claim to be a PDF editing application in
the first place.
In the case of your spool PDF files my guess is that Illustrator uses the
Default color space mechanism for characterizing the document color space
whereas Quartz just puts the needed ICC profiles into the PDF using some
other way.
BTW - a PDF may have any number of ICC profiles, not just one. PDF is not
an image format, it is a page description format, and each object on the
page can have its own color space and ICC profile.
Olaf Druemmer
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