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It's interesting to see other views of PDF. As someone who lives in Illustrator ripping every little piece of data out of a pdf to import into an Illustrator or
by BashiBazouk 7y ago
It's interesting to see other views of PDF. As someone who lives in Illustrator ripping every little piece of data out of a pdf to import into an Illustrator or InDesign file and then making a production pdf for large format printing and fixing plenty of issues along the way I find the text almost inconsequential to the whole thing. It's just another element among many elements: images, vector illustrations, et. PDF might not the best way to pass along pure text but as a container for graphical representation it works pretty well. I build pdf files to describe 20 ft walls with 1+ gigabyte images, complex vector illustrations, finely formatted text and it all prints out dam close to how I planned for it down to exact colors that match specific Pantone swatches. It's amazing what can be packed in to a pdf...
- ogurechny 7y agoYou are probably working directly with native formats embedded in PDF without even processing the visualized elements. Adobe tools like to do that. Sometimes, publishers make their PDF e-books from printed source in which images are “optimized” to low quality JPEGs, but next to them non-display Photoshop data streams with pristine megapixel illustrations are kept. If you catch big PDF files, check their insides, it's one line of `mupdf extract`.