PDF text as a vector

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t-servi

PDF text as a vector

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Hello,
With Image Magick 6.4 on a ubuntu 5.10 I send this command

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/usr/local/im640/bin/convert -background "cmyk(0,0,0,0)" -fill "cmyk(50,50,0,0)" -font Palatino-Bold -pointsize 80 label:Artification4 testConvert1.pdf
Image Magick gives me this warning :

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convert: delegate library support not built-in `/usr/local/im640/lib/ImageMagick-6.4.0/config//usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/p052004l.pfb' (Freetype).
He generates the PDF. In the PDF the text is not vectorized, and whe I analyze the PDF with Acrobat, Acrobat says the the image inside the PDF is a RGB image.
Is it possible to generate a vectorized CMYK PDF with Image Magick?
Best regards.
Jean Tinguely Awais.
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Re: PDF text as a vector

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ImageMagick primarily deals with pixels. In a few cases it can read and write vectors. However, in your case the vectors are rendered to pixels before they are saved to PDF.
t-servi

Re: PDF text as a vector

Post by t-servi »

Hello,
@Magick : Thank you!
Write you soon.
Best regards.
Jean Tinguely Awais.
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