[racket] slideshow latex generates poor quality pdf

From: Jens Axel Søgaard (jensaxel at soegaard.net)
Date: Mon Aug 12 13:10:21 EDT 2013

2013/8/6 Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com>:
> When generating pdf with the very useful slideshow-latex, equations have a
> very poor quality.

A long term solution would be to include libpoppler with Racket.

Poppler is a pdf-renderer that uses Cairo as a backend.
An equation could then be rendered by from TeX to pdf and poppler
could render the pdf to a pict.

Wilber has put FFI bindings on PLaneT that includes a page->pict  function
that renders a pdf to a pict.

http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/gcr/pdf-render.plt/2/2/planet-docs/main/index.html#(def._((planet._main..rkt._(gcr._pdf-render..plt._2._1))._page-~3epict))

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppler_(software)

/Jens Axel

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