3 Jun
2005
3 Jun
'05
7:34 a.m.
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 10:13 -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
Quick test done here, and it does result in exactly the same pixel data
between souce image and the one that's 'passed' through a PDF file; I
saved both before and after images and pnm and a checksum on them shows
that they match...
cheers
Jules
>>>> "der" == der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
writes:
> - Ran identify again on the resulting TIFF
file, and the comment's
> now changed to: "Image generated by ESP Ghostscript
> (device=pnmraw)"
> ... so it looks like any TIFF
'metadata' isn't getting preserved.
der> Worse, it is probably re-rendering the pixels, so unless it's
der> quite careful, it's introduced blur due to mismatches between
der> the original's pixel boundaries and the output's pixel
der> boundaries.
Is that speculation or have you seen something that supports this
notion? Given Adobe's background, I would assume your speculation is
false -- Adobe knows this stuff far better than most of us.