Re: [Fwd: [preview-latex-devel] dvipng-0.1 released]

[Chris Sperandio <sperandi eng usf edu>]

I would expect the LaTeX object to store what expression to render, with
the output renderer responsible for producing the correct format.  If
I'm interested in producing a bitmap, what could I do with the EPS?  Of
course I could do it via gs after producing an EPS from Dia, but this
feels less than ideal to me.  

Somebody was suggesting the dvipng author to use FreeType for rendering,
which means nothing to me, but may be of some usefulness to somebody
here.

I'll have to check Pyx; thanks for the link.

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 11:06, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote:
> IMHO this option (using EPS) is better since a raster image would loose
> quality with rescaling. BTW PyX does a very good job including La/TeX in
> graphics: http://pyx.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Alejandro
> 
> > On 20 Jul 2003, Chris Sperandio wrote:
> >> Sorry if this is in bad form, but I don't know if others are following
> >> preview-latex.
> >>
> >> This might be useful for direct (La)TeX rendering in Dia, although it
> >> introduces a new dependency.
> >
> > I was planning to use the EPS output feature of DVIPS plus some way of
> > reading EPS (which would be useful in any case).  dvipng may be an
> > optional method to improve speed.  Anyway, the (La)TeX object is
> > currently not undergoing development, as I have enough to do with just
> > applying patches (and even there I'm behind).
> >
> > -Lars
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