On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > I will push a repair for that soon. > > Just to clarify a little, `--pdf` files generated on Robby's machine > look fine in Preview on my machine, and `--pdf` files generated on my > machine look bad in Preview on Robby's machine. The machine dependence > is in how the output is viewed, and not what is generated.
Is this to say that `--pdf` files always look bad on Robby's machine, but ok on yours? > For some reason, the way that PDF fragments are pulled in by `pdflatex` > makes the fragments look worse in some PDF viewers/machines than the > way that PS fragments are pulled in by `latex` plus `dvips`. I think it > has to do with heuristics in PDF viewers, and I think there's no > difference when going to a printer. My impression was that PDF was supposed to be a pixel-accurate format, at least when self-contained and not using system fonts, and thus there wouldn't be any such heuristics. Is that not true? Sam > At Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:30:06 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> I'm trying to determine how different they look on my machine, but >> unfortunately the two processes put the lines at different places on >> the page. Do you have an easy way to control that? >> >> Sam >> >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Robby Findler >> <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: >> > No, the lower-down aspect is actually something else. The "x" and the >> > "y" in the sans serif font on that line and the big "f" on the line >> > above are from picts. The other characters on those lines are directly >> > written in the latex code. The grammar is also a pict. The picts look >> > worse in one screen shot than the other (the one whose name has >> > "8.01.25" is the uglier one). This effect is, I believe, one of the >> > main things people mean when they say that Redex's typesetting is ugly >> > (and it is indeed ugly in larger quantities). >> > >> > Robby >> > >> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt >> > <sa...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: >> >> And the one with the second x in the bottom line lower down is the one >> >> that's from --pdf and is not intended? Are there other differences >> >> between the pictures? >> >> >> >> Sam >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Robby Findler >> >> <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt >> >>> <sa...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: >> >>>> Is the program in the commit message what I should try to see the >> difference? >> >>> >> >>> It looks different for me, yes. I'm attaching two screenshots for the >> >>> difference I see between --pdf and --dvipdf. >> >>> >> >>> Robby >> _________________________ >> Racket Developers list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
