Timeline for Removing clipping masks from exported PDFs
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| Nov 25, 2012 at 17:38 | vote | accept | s0rce | ||
| Jul 24, 2012 at 12:24 | answer | added | sebhofer | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 24, 2012 at 2:49 | history | edited | Sjoerd C. de Vries | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2012 at 2:19 | history | edited | Mr.Wizard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2012 at 20:53 | comment | added | s0rce | Here is the ghostscript file in case someone is interested: dl.dropbox.com/u/3730003/pi-gs.pdf | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 20:52 | comment | added | s0rce | Ah, I just tried using Preview on OS X and then using the OS X printer thing to save as PDF, didn't work: dl.dropbox.com/u/3730003/pi-printed.pdf | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 20:49 | comment | added | Szabolcs | Actually I was hoping some program would allow do to something which is equivalent to printing. Printing to PDF might remove it, but I'm not sure how to automate it. | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 20:27 | comment | added | s0rce | @Szabolcs, ghostscipt seems to improve the situation a little bit, doesn't get of the problem all together though. I did: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sOutputFile=pi-gs.pdf pi.pdf | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 20:01 | comment | added | s0rce | @YvesKlett Many of the masks can be easily selected in Adobe Illustrator by going Select->Objects->Clipping Masks, however, even this doesn't get all of them. I'm not sure of the exact format of the PDF so I don't know how the masks are defined. | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 20:00 | comment | added | s0rce | @Szabolcs, I just tried opening and saving in xpdf (dl.dropbox.com/u/3730003/pi-xpdf.pdf), no effect. | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 19:56 | comment | added | Yves Klett | Once upon a time I fixed some EPS bounding box issues by stringbased postprocessing of Mathematica output. Are the masks easily identified in a PDF? | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 19:38 | comment | added | Dr. belisarius | @Szabolcs define "decent" :) | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 19:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackMma/status/227487736486060033 | ||
| Jul 23, 2012 at 19:24 | comment | added | Szabolcs | I would try re-processing the PDFs with various programs (xpdf? ghostscript?) and see if that reomoves the masks. I know the problem well, but I haven't tried to come up with an automated solution yet. | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 19:23 | comment | added | Szabolcs | @belisarius It's a feature of the PDFs, it should be visible in any decent vector editor that supports PDF. | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 19:16 | comment | added | Dr. belisarius | Do you see the masks when opening the doc with other programs? | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 19:12 | history | asked | s0rce | CC BY-SA 3.0 |