Re: Text properties and FTGL

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Oct-2008, Shai Ayal wrote:

| My objection to using TeX to render is that we would get a bitmap back
| (I'm sure there is some way get a bitmap from TeX w/o resorting to a
| TeX->pdf->bitmap) which would look good on screen, but really bad on a
| printer.

Why would it have to be a bitmap?  If we use scalable fonts, tex+dvips
or pdftex should be able to produce a postscript or pdf file that is
scalable.

jwe