I love that you call it raster graphics, makes it sound much more archaic somehow.
TFW you open a 160MB math textbook
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Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
Because vector graphics take up much less space. That’s the joke.
Now I’m going to put the joke out of it’s misery.
Most of the illustrations, formula, tables etc. in a math book could be vector graphics, most of them were in 90% of the upper level math text books I’ve ever had, usually in only 2 colors. Many math formulas can be represented and formatted directly using only Tex or LaTex. Mostly physics and math involving more than two dimensions would have more raster images, even color. But it’s not like the publishers are going to be handing out PDFs with original vector graphics embedded. That would make high quality knockoffs trivial.
Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I know. I was just remarking on the use of words. Thanks for the explanation?
null@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
What would be a less archaic way to say it?
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
bitmap?
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I don’t like that vector graphics have poor zooming performance. When I pinch to zoom on a pdf it takes ages to load.
Rubanski@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Skill issue
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
You’re saying I should rasterize my textbooks?
twice_hatch@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
The viewer could solve that by caching the rasterized image so you can see blurry pixels faster :^)
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I wonder if I could mod xournalpp to do that
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Your machine is just slow.
jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
i read rapster first and was confused for a few seconds lol
boaratio@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I miss Mitch.
Cort@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I used to miss Mitch
scops@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
I used to love Mitch Hedberg… I still do, but I used to, too.