On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 21:27, Michael Forbes wrote:
Unless there is a way to embed PDF in PS, I don't see a way around this.
IIRC some PS viewers do understand the transparency operators introduced in PDF, but I don't know how that capability would be required.
It might actually be worthwhile to include a little stub code that defines the PDF transparency operators (as noops) if they are not already present...
That way anybody that supported the PDF extensions would get transparency, but everyone else gets something that's no worse than what we have right now.
I wonder if it might not be worthwhile to write our PostScript to the "highest common denominator", then provide stub procedures so it gracefully degrades with less featureful interpreters?
-mental