[magick-users] Generate PDFs?

[Kent]

Hi, thanks for helping with this --

I don't know what version of IM the client has, but I'm sure it's 
pretty recent; we just set this up a couple of months ago, and the 
hoster is very good.  I can find out more if you think it might 
affect this problem.

I've made some progress on my own.  The folks in the print shop are 
complaining that printing the PDFs takes a long time because they 
need to be "flattened."  I found an Adobe document about this 
on-line; apparently the PDFs contain some transparency information, 
and this needs to be re-rendered for most printers.

My app uses Composite, Annotate, Resize, and Resample, but only in 
rather simple ways.  The resulting images are just two colors; I'm 
not intentionally doing anything that calls for transparency data.  I 
see that there's a PHP MagickFlattenImages() function, but from the 
documentation, I'm not sure if that's the same as what Adobe is referring to.

Any advice?  Thanks again --


> > Is there something about Image Magick PDF files that isn't quite up
> > to the official Adobe standards?  Any fixes?
>
>Are you using a modern version of ImageMagick?  The current release is
>ImageMagick-6.3.6-8.
>
>Is ImageMagick the right tool for your project?  ImageMagick converts PDF
>as pixels rather than vectors.  Is your source image defined as vectors?
>If so use something besides ImageMagick.  If not, you may need to post
>your a URL to your original image and the converted PDF image so we can
>take a closer look at the problem.  You can send e-mail privately to this
>address if you do not want to make the files public.




   Kent Multer                  |\  /|
   Magic Metal Productions      | \/ |
   http://TheMagicM.com         |    |

  * Web developer/designer
  * Author, The Official Miva Web Scripting Book -- available on-line:
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