Resolution of PDF in player object

[dfepstein at comcast.net]

I'm quite sure that on my PowerPC Mac a high resolution PDF in a LiveCode Player object was displayed not like a bitmap but just like it was in Preview or Acrobat.  I assume that LiveCode is tapping into QuickTime to render PDFs, so why is the PDF file's resolution degraded?  Is there any prospect that this will be corrected in future releases?  I have not tried revBrowser to display PDFs, so am not sure how its resolution works; but as I understand it revBrowser does not let us view pages other than the first of a multi-page PDF. 
Regards, 
David Epstein 
  
  
This probably doesn¹t help you, but in years gone by, my experience when 
using a player to view a PDF resulted in the content being displayed as a 
bitmap image, regardless of the type of content.  So enlarging beyond 100% 
would often appear pixelated.  I never encountered a player-viewed PDF 
displayed as anything BUT a bitmap.  But this was all QuickTime stuff, so 
things may have changed more recently. 

Regards, 

Scott Rossi 
Creative Director 
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design 




On 5/26/15, 4:09 PM, "David Epstein" < dfepstein at comcast.net > wrote: 

> In the past, when I displayed a PDF in a player object on my PowerPC Mac 
> Mini, I could scale it to, say, 1.5x the formattedWidth and 
> formattedHeight, and see it beautifully displayed at full resolution.  On 
> my newer MacBook Air and iMac this is not true; the PDF looks terrible 
> when scaled to anything other than 100%.  And if I print it, even at 
> 100%, I get screen quality, i.e., very bad, resolution.  Has something 
> changed?  Can LiveCode not display or print PDFs at full resolution on an 
> Intel Mac? 
> 
> David Epstein