Re: Text properties and FTGL

[Shai Ayal]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:14 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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

Sounds good, but I don't really know anything about these - I use &
love LaTeX/TeX, but never delved into the details. Some issues:
1) this would be a time-consuming process, so we'd probably have to
set up some caching for the bitmaps
2) You have the whole TeX distro as a run-time dependency -
problematic for windows machines (and maybe macs also)

Shai