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Does anyone know how I can programmatically find the regions that will be rasterized during the flattening process for output to EPS?
Within InDesign when you have a document open, if you navigate to the menu Window -> Output -> Flattener Preview to make sure the flattener preview is enabled, and you set it to highlight 'All Rasterized Regions' then it will show the parts of the document that will be flattened to a bitmap during output. For example if you have a drop shadow on some text, then the drop shadow part will be rasterized and when highlighting rasterized regions on the screen, the drop shadow will be highlighted in red. However I cannot work out how to get at this information from within my own plugin.
The reason I want this, is to include correct transparency information in preview thumbails created by SnapshotUtils. I know that by necessity the rasterized regions of the final postscript cannot be transparent, but if I use SnapshotUtils to create a preview image with transparency, it will show the rasterized regions as being transparent when they really are not. Obviously it would be better for me if SnapshotUtils marked the rasterized regions as not transparent, but I am happy to do this myself, it is just that I cannot work out how to find the geometry of the rasterized regions.
Does anyone have any ideas about how this could be done?
Thanks,
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