Resolution of PDF in player object

2015-05-27 Thread dfepstein
I'm quite sure that on my PowerPC Mac a high resolution PDF in a LiveCode Player object was displayed not like a bitmap but just like it was in Preview or Acrobat.  I assume that LiveCode is tapping into QuickTime to render PDFs, so why is the PDF file's resolution degraded?  Is there any prospe

Re: Resolution of PDF in player object

2015-05-26 Thread Scott Rossi
This probably doesn¹t help you, but in years gone by, my experience when using a player to view a PDF resulted in the content being displayed as a bitmap image, regardless of the type of content. So enlarging beyond 100% would often appear pixelated. I never encountered a player-viewed PDF displa

Resolution of PDF in player object

2015-05-26 Thread David Epstein
In the past, when I displayed a PDF in a player object on my PowerPC Mac Mini, I could scale it to, say, 1.5x the formattedWidth and formattedHeight, and see it beautifully displayed at full resolution. On my newer MacBook Air and iMac this is not true; the PDF looks terrible when scaled to any