Just curious (not able to test this right now) and slightly off-thread:
does anyone know (Mark?) if Inkscape can handle the postscript OK? When I
looked into Inkscape (so much cheaper - free - than Illustrator) a while
back I could not get the postscript importer to work all that well, if at
all (I vaguely recall differences between Windows an Linux versions in
this respect). It would be great if there were a reliable open source
solution to our needs.
Paul
> On 2/11/09 3:26 PM, Wayne Boucher wrote:
>> Thanks, that's interesting, and interesting that the PostScript doesn't
>> do
>> so badly on this front (since it's doing the same clipping).
> Well, I have done a quick test - see attached files - which are
> screenshots of Illustrator after 'placing' the PDF and PS versions of
> some random Analysis spectrum.
>
> The PS and PDF versions look basically the same, like this: figure.png
>
> However, when you do a 'select all' then the pdf and ps versions show
> some differences: pdf_AI.png and PS_AI.png.
> Note that we now also see 'invisible' parts that were hidden due to
> clipping. The PS version really does look quite different and I found
> them to be much easier to use.
>
>
> Brian wrote:
>>
>> The use of clipping means that objects that have points outside the
>> clipping frame get drawn faithfully, which is great but means that it
>> could be difficult to cull things without unexpected results.
>> Otherwise you would need to work out the point where every object that
>> crossed the clipping mask intersects the mask. A reasonable compromise
>> might be at least to delete all objects whose points all lie outside
>> the mask?
> Well, from looking at a zoomed in version of the PS (zoomed.png) it
> would seem that this is exactly what is happening in the postscript
> version already.
>
>
> Patrick
>
>
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