Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:39:51 -0500 From: ken Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: An empty correspondence with the CEO of Adobe Systems Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 11:39:44 -0000 Message-ID: References: <15318244-a1c5-42c8-8f76-18279a120b03@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: ken@spamcop.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 150314-0, 14/03/2015), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 17 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-XbHVDsbY1+mhGZUaKzY1bx/4KBRQfM5UqASNY1t+gjRVq79/tsWSrQfm/8Z1G56WTajDujjh6CMa+pk!WV78jVbNFKVQP1VJqFJyhzMZCzETpxu85bMbdmEHpbPe7fjmDoeMfWGVQ1s+12QFqJHgCncVQC87!s9hXDf3L0ixX38fDHg== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1871 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:2200 In article <15318244-a1c5-42c8-8f76-18279a120b03@googlegroups.com>, jdawiseman@gmail.com says... > > If the settransfer is ignored by Mac Preview, even though its valid, surely this is a problem with Mac Preview, not pdfwrite ? > > But Preview heeds the Distiller implementation. See: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.postscript/NJLAfvN_jwU Still, if the transfer function is legal (which I assume it is, since it works in Reader), the fault is in Mac Preview. Without knowing what exactly Mac Preview is doign its kind of hard to 'fix' the bug by altering what pdfwrite produces. Ken