[softwarelist] Re: .pdf creation for OvationPro

  • From: Alan Adams <alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:09:54 GMT

In message <916c103e4f.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

>> As far as I can see, Open Office, Xara Extreme and Scribus all have direct
>> PDF export. How it is implemented, I am not aware, but there again I don't
>> need know - as far as I am concerned it is directly from the application.

> Yes, and for precisely the same reasons why we want it for RISC OS
> applications: Because going through the printer driver loses
> information - CMYK colours for a start. So, Windows and RISC OS are
> pretty similar in that respect.

> Martin

So would it be better to add direct PS/PDF creation to each 
application, or to improve the printer drivers?


-- 
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.nckc.org.uk/


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