[texworks] Linux Application Bundle of TeXworks released

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 8 sept. 2009 à 19:18, Jonathan Kew a écrit :

> On 8 Sep 2009, at 14:47, Stefan Löffler wrote:
>
>> Regarding the subpixel rendering patch to poppler: unfortunately, it
>> doesn't look particularly good on the example document I tried. See  
>> the
>> attached screenshot for a comparison between the unpatched build  
>> (left)
>> and your version (right). The characters seem a bit bolder (which was
>> what you intended, if I understood you correctly), but they also  
>> look a
>> bit larger.
>
> Yes, they do, but in general they look better-formed than the  
> original rather spindly rendering (IMO).

In Mac OS X there is the same kind of difference between rendering of  
Computer Modern by TeXworks (using Poppler) on one hand, and TeXShop  
(using the built-in OS X PDF rendering libraries) and Acrobat (using  
Adobe's PDF rendering libraries) on the other hand. Here's a  
screenshot with TeXworks, TeXShop and Acrobat:

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Perhaps this is more striking when showing just TeXShop and TeXworks:

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My opinion regarding standard (ie unpatched) Poppler rendering of CM  
is the same as yours: too spindly, and also for me (but my eyes are  
not that good) eye-straining. Which leads me generally to avoid  
TeXworks for documents based on CM.

Bruno Voisin