MOTM

Acrobat will read any files imbedded in the PDF. If distiller can distill
it, Acrobat reader can read it (except color seperations) -Nate

Any other questions on PDF or other file formats , email me privately, so
as not to drive other listmembers crazy.

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>Can the average PC read it that way? Normally, it can't read an EPS, but
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>maybe the Acrobat reader does the translation? I've never tested that out.
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>Take it from someone using a PC that has to send files to Mac users on a
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>weekly basis-there* is *no common vector file format. On a PC, WMF works
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>everywhere very well, but there is no way for a Mac to read it. EPS seems to
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>work fine on a Mac, but cannot be read by 99% of PCs and can be problematic
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>on that last percent. (Especially when the person on the other end doesn't
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>know what they are doing, and you might be AMAZED at the amount of people
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>who are totally computer illiterate that buy a Mac and decide to go into
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>desktop publishing. It's just amazing. I spend at least four hours a week,
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>red-faced, screaming into a phone at someone trying to simply explain the
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>difference between raster & vector! I mean, this is their JOB!!. Sorry for
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>venting. Sore spot.)
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>From:       Nathan Hunsicker [mailto:nate@...]
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>Sent:      Friday, 26 May, 2000 12:34 PM
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>To:      motm@egroups.com
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>Subject:      RE: [motm] How come I'm not rich?
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>Vectors can be rasterized and exported to gif for web browse-ability, as
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>for the catalog, saving as Encasulated Postscript (EPS) will compress very
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>nicely into a PDF document. -Nate>
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>>That image rocks. Regarding vectors, I'm not sure what file format you'd
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>>use. What's a common vector format that every browser can read?
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