What is \Bluelatex?
Bluelatex is a modern TeX typesetting engine optimized for complex documents and designed to generate publication-ready PDF files. It is based on pdfTeX and provides significant improvements in terms of speed, stability, and capability to handle complex files with extensive graphics, fonts, color spaces, metadata, hyperlinks, etc.
Some key advantages and features of Bluelatex include:
- Faster processing of complex TeX files with large number of fonts, images, hyperlinks, etc.
- Multithreading support to utilize multiple CPU cores for faster typesetting.
- Advanced graphics handling with direct PDF inclusion, color management, transparency effects, etc.
- Robust metadata support for title, author, keywords through XMP metadata in PDF.
- Indexes for TOC, references, glossaries with PDF bookmarks and hyperlinks.
- Extensive font support for OpenType, TrueType, Type 1 fonts with advanced typographic features.
- Backward compatibility with existing TeX/LaTeX documents and packages.
- Reliable output with integrated micro-typographic extensions for improved line/page breaking.
Overall, Bluelatex brings professional-grade typesetting capabilities on par with commercial tools like InDesign while retaining the flexibility of TeX/LaTeX. It is an ideal engine for publishing complex books, reports, scientific journals with high-quality, press-ready PDF output.