[pdftex] Re: Re: pdftex] pdftex = acrobat ?

[George N. White III]

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Thierry Bouche wrote:

> Le samedi 22 octobre 2005 à 02:33:27, Reinhard écrivit :
>
> RK> Unfortunately ImageMagick is incredibly slow and produces huge files.
>
> yes. Moreover, AFAIK, imagemagick tends to interpret the input and
> build a new image stream in the PDF (possibly Flate compressed rather
> than JPEG). This is the main issue for me: I just want to keep the
> exact JPEG streams I have in separate JPEGs and make one PDF that is
> no more than the collection of these.
>
> RK> BTW, I suppose that Thierry wants to create a photo album.
>
> Well, not exactly. In that case, I just tried to make a PDF virtual
> book with existing separate scanned pages. If you're interested in
> typography, you can imagine what a wonderful experience it is to
> browse the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in acrobat's 2-pages mode made
> from the large color scans available somewhere in America.
>
> (and I have more practical applications too, but of the same kind)

I routinely make pdfs from large collections of remote sensing images 
(.png or .pdf) using ConTeXt.  This allows me to include metadata and 
tables or plots of statistical summaries.  PDF is the obvious choice 
because it supports use of scalable overlays (continents, coordinate 
meshes, annotations, etc.).

I expect increasing use of pdf format to support scalable annotations and 
overlays in future remote sensing toolchains.  At present many were 
designed for raster images and lack the accuracy to produce publication 
quality overlays of vector data.

-- 
George N. White III  <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>