Re: Text properties and FTGL

[Ben Abbott]

On Tuesday, October 28, 2008, at 02:31PM, "Shai Ayal" <address@hidden> wrote:
>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
>

Requiring TeX/LaTeX isn't much of a problem for Macs. The package managers Fink 
and DarwinPorts each have TeX/LaTeX packages.

Ben