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WillAdams@aol.com wrote:
I think ``horribly'' is a bit extreme. Rules are drawn like any other filled rectangle, and can be set to be anti-aliased in viewers which support that setting for graphic objects. Using a character is an interesting idea, but has difficulties as Hans noted.
Donald Arseneau wrote --
The leap to characters is particularly excessive because most rule rendering problems can be relieved by using stroked lines instead of filled rectangles. Add a few heuristics of height/width and you are set.
Are we talking about rendering pdf here? Or rendering postcript? These are not the same (in general), especially when dealing with `rule-like objects'. To put it another way: pdf is far from device-independent:; this is an empirical fact that I have lived with for the last 5 years. chris