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kineme structure to file(Kineme) PDF rendering on Billboard bug.I've been tracking an bug for months now that I'm going to call a Kineme PDF Renderer bug. There's a chance it is just in the QC pipelines. It seems to be associated with multipage PDFs rather than one page PDFs. Symptoms & things I've learnt about bug:
Why it matters:Wikipedia wrote: Despite such praise, PDFs from the image import defaults to a set resolution. When using bit map (TIFF, whatever) they scale up poorly when viewer size is increased (yuk interpolation). Less obvious is the fact that QC also scales down bitmaps poorly resulting in jaggies compared to an optimised image size. I guess mipmapping is a possible answer to this issue — only just thought of it. Kineme PDF Renderer has dynamic resolution and therefore generally gives a much cleaner edge on line art at any Viewer size, even when just set to a high res output and just left there. I tried a bunch of workarounds like loading single page PDF files into a queue from the Kineme PDF Renderer output but the bug eventually got me there too. In the end I just queued the Kineme PDF Renderer output at a compromise resolution for typical display size. Made sure no bug. Then saved the file to a plist with Structure to File. Would love to see this bug ironed out! It's being wasting me ;-)
Structure to File RequestI noticed with the "Kineme Structure to File" patch, that when it saves as structure, that it reorders it into alphabetical order. Is there a way thatan option can be added to disable this behavior? The reason I ask is that I'm having to shoe in some fault tolerance into a project that runs on an unreliable network, so I'm building an XML caching system that will save this XML feed locally and only update the display when a newer version of the feed is downloaded. The problem being is that since Structure to File alphabetizes the contents of the feed when it saves it, it reorders the values throughout the entire composition. Is there something else maybe I'm missing that would be a better way to handle this?
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