I can't explain, no. The pdfs don't actually seem to _be_ worse when printing, so this pathway just seems to encourage viewers somehow.
But apparently if you have a retina mac, this flag isn't necessary. Robby On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:30 AM, <ro...@racket-lang.org> wrote: >> >> >> 5280395 Robby Findler <ro...@racket-lang.org> 2014-06-27 03:25 >> : >> | add the --dvipdf flag to scribble >> | >> | This adds a new back-end pipeline for generating pdf to >> | scribble, with the hope that included picts (e.g., those >> | generated by Redex) will look better when viewed with >> | on-screen pdf viewers > > Can you explain more about why this would work better? In particular, > there are lots of things that work better/only with pdflatex (fonts, > unicode, hyperlinks, etc) so I hope that there isn't some permanent > barrier to getting both nice-looking Redex picts and fancy latex > features. > > Sam _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
