[XeTeX] Printers & PDFs created by XeTeX
William Adams
will.adams at frycomm.com
Tue Jul 24 13:26:09 CEST 2007
On Jul 24, 2007, at 4:36 AM, Evgenie Medvedev wrote:
> William Adams wrote:
>
>> Strange. Probably it's stamping the .pdf w/ a number / slug or
>> something like that.
>
> Only, there's no text in it that could be copied out of it, so that
> doesn't seem the case. It might be that it embeds a font just
> because it
> coded to always embeds a font...
I'd have to look at a .pdf it created to make sure --- perhaps it's
using a template for constructing the .pdf which includes a place for
text.
>> Use a tool to check the separations.
>
> Any free tools out there that can do that?
If you've got Windows you could maybe track down a copy of Adobe
Acrobat Approval (The IRS used to distribute it on a CD w/ tax forms
for small businesses) and a copy of Enfocus Eyedropper.
I believe there're command line options for GhostScript which will do
this as well.
>> CID keyed fonts were introduced in ~1996 if memory serves, so since
>> sometime after that.
>
> That's more than ten years ago, does the hardware really last this
> long?
Yep. We're talking about hardware that costs tens of thousands of
dollars (and up) --- software RIP licenses aren't much cheaper (are
sometimes more expensive) and are often tied to hardware (pricing
varies according to device resolution).
I know an Agfa Accuset 9800 that I installed back in 1993 is still in
use (and it was purchased used).
William
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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications
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