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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 04:58:37PM +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> Attached is a screen-grab of a 1600% PDF of a texmacs circle drawn about
> the same size as a texmacs point.
> 
> Question: Why doesn't it look like a circle? Instead it's a mostly regular
> 11 sided shape. It's not like this is a 1980's quick-draw preview, and this
> is actually a PDF export! And yet for a (unsizable point) texmacs does
> manage to draw a proper circle.

Curves are exported as polylines at the moment, which are made to look
nice at the resolution of your printer, but not when zooming in on them.
We might increase the number of lines for the approximation though,
when producing the Pdf.

Best wishes, --Joris