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Subject:RE: Color Background In PDF? From:Emru Townsend <etownsen -at- Softimage -dot- com> To:"'techwrl'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 9 Nov 1999 15:07:43 -0500
Of course. The whole point of PDF (okay, a point) is that, at the
least, you can replicate anything that your application can print. So if
your application can print a colored background, you can make a PDF with a
colored background.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bdoonan -at- coreco -dot- com [mailto:bdoonan -at- coreco -dot- com]
> Subject: Color Background In PDF?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> one of the engineers asked me if it is possible to have a colored
> background in a PDF he wants developed. I have never seen (or I don't
> remember seeing) a PDF with a colored background so I am
> unsure about the
> answer. Since PDF's are frequently used as a way to print
> documents, I find
> it rather useless to add a colored background to them;
> however, I'd like to
> give him an answer anyway.
