Re: Bitmap images in PDF?

[Robert Riebisch]

Jeff Kingston wrote:

> As someone pointed out, the PDF back end is incomplete and
> unsupported.  Adding support for *isolated* PDF features like
> this one does not strike me as a good use of anyone's time.

I see. :-/

> Adding *comprehensive* PDF support would be an enormous job
> and is basically impossible anyway since Lout's graphical
> packages (e.g. @Diag and @Graph) rely on large PostScript
> prepend files, for which there is no PDF equivalent.

Um, I'm just a Lout newbie, so why do you always mention @Diag and
@Graph, when I talk about PDF?
I just "expect" Lout reading a JPEG file, turning it to a "/Type
/XObject /Subtype /Image /Name /Im" object and allow references to it.
Isn't it that simple? ;-)

Robert Riebisch
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