Dear all, I've created this. http://www.cirma.unito.it/research/alternando/photoBook.pdf (it's 5 mB) The cover and the separators in the pages are generated stretching on layers the same image (a pdf generated by Metapost) % cover \setlayer [mybg] [x=0\paperwidth, y=0\paperheight] {\color[lightgray]\externalfigure[alternando] [height=1\paperheight,width=1\paperwidth]} % red horizontal separator \setlayer [mybg2] [x=0\paperwidth, y=.45\paperheight] {\color[darkred]\externalfigure[alternando] [height=.1\paperheight,width=\paperwidth]} % gray vertical separator \setlayer [mybg3] [x=.9\paperwidth, y=0\paperheight] {\color[lightgray]\externalfigure[alternando] [height=\paperheight,width=.05\paperwidth]} In Preview.app on macosx it's all displayed as expected (this is a png snapshot of the horizontal separator: http://www.cirma.unito.it/research/alternando/hbar.png ). But Acrobat displays the separators (the cover is ok) as a sequence of filled boxes. Can it depends on some resolutions setting? Or what? -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> andrea.valle@unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong)
Andrea Valle schrieb:
hi andrea, zoom to a level of 6400% and you can give the answer yourself. this is just the way acrobat's rip is interpreting your separator gfx. you can try to remove the horizontal border lines (also too fine for printing). additionaly you can use (slightly) alternating background colors per line to emphasize the horizontal borders (like in exxel). btw: very nice location (only sunlight is missing); please drop a note when the final pdf is released :) best wishes, peter
many thanks Peter (sorry for the delay). I solved converting the resulting figure in Preview in two pngs and including them as png. Best -a-
btw: very nice location (only sunlight is missing); please drop a note when the final pdf is released :)
Trying to do it :) -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> andrea.valle@unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong)
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Andrea Valle
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Peter Rolf