Re: UNIX PostScript (Was: Distiller Trivia)

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I've seen a big advantage distilling on UNIX--it would be interesting to see
> if you could duplicate it. Try drawing line art in FrameMaker with the thinnest
> line width possible.  Then create postscript using FrameMaker on UNIX and 
> FrameMaker on Windows, and distill the postscript files. When I do this,
> the lines in the artwork printed to postscript on Windows are blobby, while
> the lines that done in UNIX are much cleaner. Curves seem to show these
> problems particularly well.

I did your test, and yes, there is a difference. The curved lines created by
FM on UNIX are clean and smooth and crisp at all zoom levels, whereas the
same lines created by FM on Windows are jaggier and have small "knots" at
various places. You don't notice it at first glance, but if you study
the lines on-screen, there is a difference in quality. Interesting.

BTW, I used the same Distiller and Reader application to produce and view
the PDFs from the two PS sources, so the difference is not due to different
Acrobat software versions or platforms. Apparently, the UNIX-produced
PostScript is "better" in some sense...


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Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
Technical Writer, IAR Systems, Uppsala, Sweden
mailto:Thomas.Michanek@telia.com
http://go.to/framers/
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