Re: GSoC project - LaTeX/TeX

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 27, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Patrick Noffke wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>        http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/textogif/
>> 
> 
> This is very interesting.  I like the -res option to control the
> oversampling for reducing aliasing.  dvipng has a -Q option that
> controls the level of antialiasing, but that might not apply to all
> fonts.
> 
> Andrej, would you be able to compare the quality of image produced
> with the two methods for various levels of antialiasing?  Experiment
> with some different types of LaTeX text if possible.
> 
> We probably can't use textogif directly because of the extra
> dependencies, but it would still be interesting, and possibly useful
> for the final solution.
> 
> Pat

The textogif perl script is quite short.  I expect the parts needed can be 
pruned and implemented in a manner that is more suitable for us.

There are other scripts that are similar.  For example, tex2image is another 
perl script and tex2im is a bash script.

        http://dean.serenevy.net/code/projects/tex2image

        http://www.nought.de/tex2im.html

Ben