[ANN] vector to pdf

2004-07-25 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Developers, Download the stack "vector2pdf": _http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/vector2pdf.zip_ This shows a handler to export vector graphics as pdf. When Acrobat Reader 5 opens the file, it still shows the message "Rebuilding refer

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-03 Thread Roger . E . Eller
> I just ask for feedback on PDF readers error messages > on linux and mac os x Alejandro, I for one am very appreciative of your work in this area. PDF output needs to become as easy as printing. As a matter of fact, that is one way of getting a PDF out of a Rev stack (if you own Adobe Acrobat

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-03 Thread Troy Rollins
On Aug 3, 2004, at 10:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a matter of fact, that is one way of getting a PDF out of a Rev stack (if you own Adobe Acrobat - not reader). Or, a Mac. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ use-revolution ma

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-03 Thread Roger . E . Eller
>> As a matter of fact, that is one way of >> getting a PDF out of a Rev stack (if you own Adobe Acrobat - not >> reader). > > Or, a Mac. ;-) > -- > Troy > RPSystems, Ltd. Yet another cost-prohibitive factor. ;-p Also, did you know that PDF files from the rendering engine bundled in OS X are

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-03 Thread Troy Rollins
On Aug 3, 2004, at 10:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet another cost-prohibitive factor. ;-p Also, did you know that PDF files from the rendering engine bundled in OS X are not Adobe compliant? For simple document exchange, they are ok. but in commercial prepress we have to rely on Adobe Dist

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-03 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Tue Aug 3 2004 Roger.E.Eller wrote: > I tested your "vector2pdf" with Acrobat 5 (full) and > Acrobat Reader 6 on Win2000. In both cases the > PDF files opened and displayed correct color filled > objects. This is great to know! Thanks! Did you try to print or save as pdf from Acrobat? T

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-04 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 19 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 17:28:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Alejandro Tejada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ANN] vector to pdf To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Developers, After a lot of discussion about the need of

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-04 Thread Pierre Sahores
Thanks Alejandro, Will spend a couple of hours with it (Linux, Panther). Best, Pierre Le 4 août 04, à 02:28, Alejandro Tejada a écrit : Hi Developers, After a lot of discussion about the need of pdf in this platform, i get surprised that no interest showed to this handler to export the vector graph

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-04 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Wed, 4 Aug 2004 Jim Hurley wrote: > Actually you have solved my needs for a PDF > exporter within RunRev > with your generous work allowing us to export RunRev > graphics as an > Illustrator file. I'm glad that you find useful that handler. Notice, Jim, the pdf export handler is almost ide

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-04 Thread Pierre Sahores
Alejandro, Your "vector2pdf" stack works fine there under both Panther 10.3.4 and Suse-Linux 8.2 Pro (MC 2.5 in both cases). The exported PDF files opens OK under Apercu and Acrobat Reader 6 (MacOS) and under Acrobat 5 (Linux). They don't open under KGhostView 0.13.2 / KDE 3.1.1 (Linux) and und

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-05 Thread Roger . E . Eller
>>If you are using FreeHand, then i suggest that you >>use the pdf export handler because it solves >>some errors in the AI handler. > > Al, > > Thanks for this update. I will follow your advice. > > Now after your triumph with "Vector to AI" and a "Vector to PDF," > what will you do for an enco

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-05 Thread Roger . E . Eller
>> Let me know if I can assist with testing or >> providing sample PDF >> files created with various programs. > > Of course, if you could save these same set of vectors > graphics as pdf from other applications, like > ghostscript, corel, indesign, open office, etc..., > you could compress all of

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-05 Thread Jim Hurley
Al, There is a problem with "line" graphics with an open segment in the PDF converter. For example, a line graphic with with following points: 139,109 402,59 476,242 214,361 65,244 appears as if the open line were closed, i.e. as if the empty line were absent. Did I make myself clear? Jim __

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-05 Thread Jim Hurley
Al, There is a problem with "line" graphics with an open segment in the PDF converter. For example, a line graphic with with following points: 139,109 402,59 476,242 214,361 65,244 appears as if the open line were closed, i.e. as if the empty line were absent. Did I make myself clear? Jim P.S

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-06 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Jim Hurley wrote: >Now after your triumph with "Vector to AI" and >a "Vector to PDF," what will you do for an encore? >Maybe "Vector to IPod?" I do not have an IPod, but accept any mp3 player from the participants of this list... ;-) But, i do not feel too triumphant. This is more a scratchy s

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-06 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Alejandro, > Actually, i do not have CAD software to test this > conversion. Is DXF written as ascii text? In its simplest form, DXF can be ascii only. The DXF CAD file format appears to be well documented at myfileformats.com. http://myfileformats.com/search.php?name=dxf There are numerous fr

[ANN] vector to pdf v02

2004-08-09 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Developers, Download the stack "vector2pdf_v02": _http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/vector2pdf_v02.zip_ This handler includes the bug fixes discussed in this list and others not so obvius. ;-) I've included ASCIIHexEncoding as

[ANN] vector to pdf v02b

2004-08-11 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Developers, Download the stack "vector2pdf_v02b": _http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/vector2pdf_v02b.zip_ This handler now includes Ascii85 encoding and AsciiHex encoding. I have succesfully export one image from RR to pdf. But

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf v02b

2004-08-11 Thread Roger . E . Eller
> Inform to the mail list about any incompabilities > and error messages with Acrobat 6 and Readers from > Mac OS X and Linux. Since v02 and v02b, PDF files will not open in Reader 6.0 with or without ascii85 or hex encoding. Reader 6 gives no error message and displays an empty square page. The