[pdftex] Photo reproduction with PDF.

Martin Schroeder ms at artcom-gmbh.de
Wed Jun 25 11:55:42 CEST 2003


On 2003-06-22 15:44:07 -0400, William Adams wrote:
> One further wrinkle on using pdftex w/ graphics---if one is going to 
> preflight using PitStop (which many printers want / expect / hope 
> for), PitStop is unable to reach within a placed pdf ``form'' object, 
> so one must flatten out the .pdf representation (that's a good time 
> to arrange to embed standard fonts too).

Yes, that's a known limitation of the Adobe PDF library - it
can't handle form XObjects.

Best regards
        Martin
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