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At 03:12 PM 6/26/2003 -0600, John Cruise wrote:
Apple recently announced improved PDF support in the next version (OS X v10.3/Panther) of Preview,
I'm not exactly sure what "improved PDF support" was announced...from what I've heard come back from the sessions, it mainly sounds like they've improved performance and given developers some access to lower level features - but there was NO MENTION of any new parts of the PDF spec being supported.
including the ability to open EPS and PostScript files and save them as PDF.
Correct.
Apple has licensed the Adobe Normalizer (the core of Distiller) and integrated it into the OS...
Does anybody know what PDF versions the next version of Preview will be able to save (PDF 1.3, 1.4, and/or 1.5)?
Preview doesn't save PDF's - it just reads them. It continues to only read up to 1.4...
Along the same lines, will the next version of Preview include any Distiller-like save options (image compression, font embedding, standard PDF job options, etc.)?
Again, Preview doesn't save. But if you mean Quartz, the core graphics engine of Mac OS X, there haven't been any announcements YET. I am, however, expecting some info shortly as the printing session is about to start...
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