On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > 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).
Right -- what I meant was that at a given size, rendering should be pixel-accurate, so that you shouldn't see differences between different viewers (unlike, say, HTML, which doesn't prescribe layout nearly as precisely). Sam _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
