At Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:56:39 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > > 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?
PDF is a vector-graphics format, not a raster-graphics format (so it doesn't really say anything about pixels). _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
