From: Robert Tennent <rdt@cs.queensu.ca>
To: barr@barrs.org, categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Diagrams on the WWW ?
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 14:07:30 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200001091907.OAA18995@maggie.cs.queensu.ca> (raw)
> From: Michael Barr <barr@barrs.org>
>
> I would suggest doing it in tex and then converting it to pdf, which is
> quickly coming to be a standard for the web. There are at least two ways
> of doing tex --> pdf that cost no money. There is something called
> pdflatex.
Still beta I believe, but works well.
> A second, not entirely
> satisfactory is to use the ability of gsview to output pdf files. You
> choose print to disk and then you get a pdf file that can be read with the
> Adobe reader.
>
Best results are obtained by using type 1 fonts and the most recent version
of ghostscript, currently 5.97, or maybe 6.
Another possibility, which I've found gives the best results,
is to use a free program called dvipdfm:
http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/
Bob T.
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2000-01-09 19:07 Robert Tennent [this message]
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2000-01-10 0:44 Robert Harper
2000-01-09 19:39 Lars Lindqvist
2000-01-08 1:29 Lars Lindqvist
2000-01-08 22:38 ` Michael Barr
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