> On 8 Mar 2017, at 10:59 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > - Option 1 - bi-level background images > > Here I'm assuming that your original PDFs do not change that often and (given > the > requirements you have found out from the government department involved) the > forms > must be used as is. Thus, I presume any 'recurring sections' would need to be > rendered on repeated images of the appropriate page rather than cutting up the > original forms into pieces and just replicating those parts. > > In this case, then pre-rendering all the pages as high-resolution > black-and-white > 1bpp bitmaps and then rendering those underneath the LiveCode fields is > probably not > that bad an option. Given that the average printer people will be using will > probably > only have a true black-and-white resolution of 300-600dpi and most printed > forms are > only about 5% black pixels you will get immensely high compression ratios. > The only > slight snafu here right now is that PDF printing support in LC does not yet > exist > for Android, and would need a small patch to pass PNG data straight through > to the > PDF (at present it only does this for JPEG). [ The reason PDF printing is not > currently > supported on Android is due to text rendering which is not a straightforward > thing in > PDF nor PostScript; the reason only JPEG image data is currently supported is > that > when the pass-through was implemented the library we use to do PDF printing - > cairo - > only supported it for JPEG, I *think* it does support certain PNG formats now > though > since we updated the library for other reasons a while back ].
If the required platforms are limited to Mac and Windows then you can use XPDF to generate the images ;-) Cheers Monte _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
