Acrobat, Mac and CR

[Miklos_Somogyi@adobeforums.com]

Hello Folks,

This is no big deal, just an irritant. Acrobat 6 std under Panther 10.3.7 produces .eps
files with Microsoft style ^M (CR) line terminators. They are bad on the screen and in the editor.
Yes, I can use "tr" to translate them to LFs, but I would prefer if Acrobat would do the right thing
according to its environment.

I found nothing about this in the setup options. Have I overlooked something?
If can't be done, well, please register a request for Acrobat 8.

Miklos

[MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com]

Miklos,

An eps file (which can be binary or ascii) is a graphic file format that
is not intended to be edited with a text editor, though you can
obviously edit an ascii file with a text editor. Are you trying to edit
the pdf with a text editor? If so, the only text editor on a Mac worth
using is BBEdit and it doesn't care what line endings you use and allow
you to switch betweeen Unix, Mac and what it calls MS-DOS effortlessly.

Mike

[Miklos_Somogyi@adobeforums.com]

Mike,

Thank you for BBEdit, I'll look into it. No, I don't want to edit pdf files.
I would like to find a utility with which I could put images (scanned-in jpg or
Mac style window-grabs) onto an a4 "canvas", could move them around, scale them,
rotate a bit to correct 1-2 degree scanning misalignments, erase unwanted things, etc.

So far I haven't found my ideal interactive utility. Until then eps will do.
I cat them together and add a bit of PS code. It's not a difficult job, just it takes more
time than my imaginary interactive program would. The upside is that I can do with this scheme whatever I want to, and things look exactly how I want them to look.

Thanks

Miklos

[MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com]

Miklos,

For manipulating graphics, there is of course Photoshop and Photoshop
Elements. For people on a budget there is Graphics Converter from
Lemkesoft.com that will do much more than convert graphics. There is the
freeware from the NIH, called NIH image that runs under OS 9 and classic
and the ImageJ <http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/> a java port that runs under
OS X.

Mike

[Miklos_Somogyi@adobeforums.com]

Mike,

Thank you for the advice. I have GraphicConverter but it doesn't seem to do what
I would like to do. I'll look into Photoshop.
Thank you
Miklos