Re: [ferret_users] vector representation

[Ryo Furue <furue@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Marco,

> [. . .]  pstopdf does convert with vector 
> representation conserved.  I think that this
> is the way to go.
> 
> Now for an option to disable antialiasing in pstopdf,
> I might read the gs man page for this, [. . .]

You would be unsuccessful, I'm afraid, :-)
because antialiasing is NOT a property
of the PostScript or PDF file.

Whether to apply antialiasing or not is a decision
made by the "renderer".  A PDF viewer, for example,
renders the contents of the PDF file on your
computer screen, when it decides whether to
apply antialiasing.  When you print a PDF file,
the printer driver (or the application that prints)
makes this decision.

What I don't know is whether there is
a provision for including such metadata as
antialiasing parameters in a PDF file.  If there is,
then, yes, you can specify antialiasing in PDF.

Regards,
Ryo