EPS to PDF: Smooth Shades, Bug in Acrobat?
Hello!
I encountered a really weird feature/bug in Acrobat.
I have a very simple EPS file which draws 2 x 5 = 10 adjacing black squares. (EPS file below and attached)
When I drag it into Acrobat 8.1.5 and save it as PDF, and then try to open this PDF in Illustrator, Illustrator says: [German] "Eine unbekannte Schattierungsart wurde gefunden." which might be in [English]: "An unknown shading type was found."
And then the big regtangle (which was the 10 squares before) cannot be edited in Illustrator because this object is [German] "Grafik aus Drittprogramm" which might be in [English]: "Graphics from third party software".
The fact that Acrobat makes a large rectangle out of the 10 squares, is not very uncommon. But why does Acrobat not leave the color black but changes it into a smooth shade (which runs from black to black)???
(I know that I can disable the smooth shade feature in Acrobat. But still: there is a bug in Acrobat that reconizes an object with one unique color as a smooth shade!)
%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-3.0
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 10 5
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%EndComments
%%Page: 1 1
save gsave
/Rectangle {
1 index 0 rlineto
0 exch rlineto
neg 0 rlineto
closepath
} def
/N { newpath } def
/Q { moveto 1 1 neg Rectangle fill } def
0 setgray
N 1 2 Q
N 1 3 Q
N 2 2 Q
N 2 3 Q
N 3 2 Q
N 3 3 Q
N 4 2 Q
N 4 3 Q
N 5 2 Q
N 5 3 Q
grestore restore
Are you sure didn't have the Shift key down at the same time as you pressed Cmd and the + (plus) key?
Cmd-Shift-plus and Cmd-Shift-minus are the shortcuts for rotate clockwise and counterclockwise.
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