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>>>>> "Dik" == Dik T Winter <Dik.Winter@xxxxxx> writes:
Dik> There is a basic difference between a word-processor and
Dik> TeX/LaTeX.
Sure!
Dik> And that is what makes converting one to the other so
Dik> difficult. In a word-processor you do the layout by hand,
Dik> look at your screen whether it is good enough, and that is
Dik> that.
By this definition, WordPerfect 5.1 isn't a "word-processor".
Dik> When printing it at a resolution much higher than your screen
Dik> resolution, sometimes the results can be pretty bad.
What? I suppose a device with a higher resolution can at worst
emulate a lower resolution device.
BTW, although printers generally have higher spatial resolution than
displays, they have a very limited colour resolution when compared to
True-Colour display cards +- monitors. Non-photographic printers
usually use dithering to create the illusion of millions of colours
out of only 4-6 available colours. And by dithering, they're
sacrificing spatial resolution.
Dik> On the other hand, TeX/LaTeX is a typesetting language. You
Dik> tell it how the document should look and it will look like
Dik> you told it once printed.
And it's the real WYSIWYG system: What I preview with Ghostscript (or
gv) or xpdf (or Acrobat Reader) looks exactly like the printout. Only
the resoultion is different.
Dik> It may look horrible when you preview it on a windowing
Dik> system that does not know about anti-aliassing, but once
Dik> printed it looks good.
But digital photos show better on screen than on printout. :)
Dik> There is even no problem get out of it A3 or A2 posters just
Dik> as you wanted (but your preview will always be pretty bad).
I once prepared an A1-sized poster with LaTeX. What I preview on
screen with Ghostscript is exactly what finally gets printed out in
A1-size. And I could easily scale the Postscript file to A4 to have a
printed preview -- using an ordinary A4 colour printer -- of how it
looks like when printed in A1-size.
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