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Subject:RE: Suggestions for new tool option From:"Giordano, Connie" <Connie -dot- Giordano -at- FMR -dot- COM> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:21:08 -0400
One point that is troublesome about gifs, you cannot use gifs saved with
transparent backgrounds and expect them to display properly in PDF--I
discovered after about 6 hours of research, that transparency does some not
nice stuff when converted. If any other formats allow transparency, they
will likely have the same problem.
I use gifs all the time in 200+ page documents, I just make sure the
background is set to white.
Otherwise, I gained a lot of useful information from this thread... thanks
guys!
Connie Giordano
-----Original Message-----
From: Brierley, Sean [mailto:Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com]
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 3:07 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Suggestions for new tool option
Hi:
Andrew, thanks for the info. To delve into this topic of graphics even
further, you mention Word stores all embedded graphics as binaries in a
special portion of the file, and that this leads to some issues with some
file types. Accepting that as true, does not importing by linking get around
that?
The Acrobat PostScript processes might be picky, but why do you think it
discriminate against GIFs? I recommend using ZIP compression, which is
loss-less. Thoughts?
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