New Features in Creator 8

[Steve Mills]

On Apr 5, 2007, at 15:37:28, chris ford wrote:

> When we asked Agfa (AdSuite) if they had tested Creator 8 with  
> AdSuite they
> replied with:
>
>
> Not yet, but feel free to try it as Creator usually doesn't make  
> that many
> changes.
>
> We may need to turn hires on if it uses flattening or transparency.
>
>
> What should I tell them about this? I’m assuming (maybe not rightly  
> so) that
> the soft shadow feature would be using “transparency” to create.  
> And I’m not
> sure what features would be supported by “flattening”. It sounds  
> like we may
> have to go to a hi-res workflow to be able to use some of the new  
> features.
> Currently we use a lo-res cache workflow which really speeds up  
> downloading
> and uploading the files back and forth to our server. Especially  
> from our
> bureau offices offsite.

I didn't follow exactly what the issue is here, so I'll just explain  
soft shadows. Since there is no way to tell PostScript to use varying  
levels of transparency when drawing the shadow, an application has to  
work around that glaring omission by rendering the soft shadow or  
transparency and everything beneath it into a bitmap, then put that  
bitmap into the PostScript. So if your workflow uses lo-res images  
when building ads, and then you print or export eps/pdf, any soft  
shadows will be drawn with whatever lo-res images happen to be  
beneath them.

Does that help?

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