[racket-dev] [plt] Push #28945: master branch updated

Is the program in the commit message what I should try to see the difference?

Sam

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> I can't explain, no. The pdfs don't actually seem to _be_ worse when
> printing, so this pathway just seems to encourage viewers somehow.
>
> But apparently if you have a retina mac, this flag isn't necessary.
>
> Robby
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
> <samth at cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:30 AM,  <robby at racket-lang.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 5280395 Robby Findler <robby at racket-lang.org> 2014-06-27 03:25
>>> :
>>> | add the --dvipdf flag to scribble
>>> |
>>> | This adds a new back-end pipeline for generating pdf to
>>> | scribble, with the hope that included picts (e.g., those
>>> | generated by Redex) will look better when viewed with
>>> | on-screen pdf viewers
>>
>> Can you explain more about why this would work better? In particular,
>> there are lots of things that work better/only with pdflatex (fonts,
>> unicode, hyperlinks, etc) so I hope that there isn't some permanent
>> barrier to getting both nice-looking Redex picts and fancy latex
>> features.
>>
>> Sam