[Scummvm-devel] Decompiler: Documentation feedback

[Michael Madsen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Willem Jan Palenstijn [mailto:wjp at usecode.org]
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 6:07 PM
> To: Michael Madsen
> Cc: 'ScummVM devel'
> Subject: Re: [Scummvm-devel] Decompiler: Documentation feedback
> 
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 05:58:22PM +0200, Michael Madsen wrote:
> > The main advantage over not going straight to PDF is that if you use
> > graphics, going to DVI forces you to use EPS (vector graphics), while
> > pdflatex allows bitmaps, which (being raster images) don't scale well.
> Of
> > course, seeing that there aren't any graphics in there at this point,
> I guess
> > it doesn't hurt to change it, so I can do that later today.
> 
> You can turn EPS into PDF with epstopdf, and use the resulting
> (vector) .pdf
> files from your .tex file.

Yes, but you're not *forced* to use vector graphics with pdflatex; you can throw in PNG and JPG as well. Latex+dvips+ps2pdf won't let you get away with that; you have to use EPS, and that means vector graphics (or a horribly butchering of vectors to emulate pixels in a raster image, but that's wrong on so many other levels). Bitmaps look poor in PDFs, so "actively encouraging" vector graphics will generate a better looking final result.

Michael