Hi Steve
That's interesting, I'm on Leopard only (:/) and the enlarged image
doesn't show up at all for me (it tooltip-previews as 4000px though).
I had a few patches missing like 'Toggle' but I gather they were only
using spacebar to switch the multiplexer. I manually set X and Y
values to make sure it wasn't just off screen — no joy.
ALSO and to me just as importantly, I noticed that PDF Glitch Bug
appear that I was pointing fingers at KinemePDF Renderer for a few
months ago. I did say at the time it may well turn out to be in the QC
piping causing it because Image Importer had once or twice done it but
I could not repeat it consistently. If you have an translucent Editor
Window overlapping the Viewer window and start moving Patches anywhere
in the Editor window, the co-incident region goes terribly glitchy.
This is an easy way to get the Kineme PDF Renderer to bug out or by
overlapping Viewer windows.
Unfortunately this is not the extent of the bug, even in clear and
controlled circumstances, the bug can also cause a Billboard or Sprite
to just render as a blank rect with it's input colour —> no respect
for image input. This has been a major PITA for me and I spent many,
many hours trying to isolate and work-around this bug — maybe it's
10.5 or Nvidia FX5200 only because nobody else seems bothered in the
slightest.
Best
Alastair
ps.
Great reference btw — very 80s computer club angst ;-).
I tried to map the maze and all it's linguistic permutations last year
and the failed. Maps are still lying around in one my my current note
books. Please solve — I want that Pirate caught and I want my booty
back!
On 09/12/2010, at 6:09 AM, Steve Mokris wrote:
Pixel resolution is locked-down on PDFs.
Kinda. The `Image Resize` patch does some magic to resize the image
prior to rasterization, if you attach it directly after the `Image`
patch. See the attached composition — the `Image` patch outputs an
image of the PDF that's 612x792 by default; passing it through
`Image Resize` results in a sharp 3091x4000 image (i.e., not the
612x792 image scaled up, but the vectors rendered at higher
resolution).
However this doesn't seem to work reliably — for example, in the
attached composition, try swapping the order of the Image
Multiplexer's two inputs, and restart the composition. The resized
image will then be blurry (i.e., the 612x792 image *is* scaled up in
that case).
Steve
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http://kineme.net/
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