PDF Import

[Arnis Gubins]

Hi Jacob,

AFAIK, that's what goes on behind the scenes. FM doesn't support all of 
the PDF (imaging) functionality, such as live transparency, and still 
outputs via an outdated postscript printer model (i.e. the Adobe PDF 
printer instance). It has to first flatten the content to be able to 
output the postscript. This is also why it was so difficult to get the 
CMYK PDFs to work properly. So, for now, EPS is still at the heart of FM.

Adobe may discourage, but, until they put the resources into FM to 
directly create PDFs (like all of the other Creative apps), proper EPS 
will be the safest and fastest route to a PDF output. ;-)

Regards,

Arnis

On 16/4/2013 3:32 PM, Jacob Schäffer (Grafikhuset) wrote:
> Hi Arnis,
>
> Is it really true that FM makes an internal PDF->  EPS conversion?
>
> If "true" that’s very interesting. As to my knowledge Adobe unceasingly
> discourage the use of EPS when PDF is available because the PostScript
> imaging model can't render a quite substantial amount of PDF objects
> correctly :-)
>
>
>