[softwarelist] Re: Ovation W to pdf
- From: Peter Prewett <pprewett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:40:56 +1000
David Pilling wrote:
In message <4862CF53.8090407@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Prewett
<pprewett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Ovation Windows but the picture itself was drawn as a sprite and had
a mask
That is a troublesome area...
displays correctly in Ovation Pro but it is the conversion to pdf
from Ovation that the mask gets converted to black.
I'd suggest configuring your copy of Ovation Pro for Windows to use
"direct PostScript" Misc->Choices->Print then print to PDF again.
It is hard to summarise the situation on Windows with regards to
transparency. On classic windows there is no support, and you do it by
eor'ing bitmaps, the PostScript drivers don't support this. As with
RISC OS there are two major classes of printer drivers meta file and
PostScript. Now no doubt transparency support has appeared over the
years, but that doesn't mean printer drivers have been upgraded to
understand it.
That appears to work on the few pages I have checked so far.
I think it does mean though I have to remember to set the choices each
time I use Ovation Pro for Windows, as it is a global setting rather
than a document saving.
Thanks again for your help it is appreciated.
Peter
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Peter Prewett, Tumut, New South Wales
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