Question about PDF manipulation

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "der" == der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> writes:

 >> - Ran identify again on the resulting TIFF file, and the comment's
 >> now changed to: "Image generated by ESP Ghostscript
 >> (device=pnmraw)"

 >> ... so it looks like any TIFF 'metadata' isn't getting preserved.

 der> Worse, it is probably re-rendering the pixels, so unless it's
 der> quite careful, it's introduced blur due to mismatches between
 der> the original's pixel boundaries and the output's pixel
 der> boundaries. 

Is that speculation or have you seen something that supports this
notion?  Given Adobe's background, I would assume your speculation is
false -- Adobe knows this stuff far better than most of us.

      paul