From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Manualitis
Date: 05 Dec 1999 10:32:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hfhx8ku5.fsf@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "05 Dec 1999 05:16:15 +0100"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:
>
> > Don't use ps2pdf. It's evil. Broken. In terrible shape. It might
> > work someday (sounds like it might be OK by 6.0) but now, it's bad.
>
> In what way? It kinds looks ok to me...
If you use any fonts other than the base 13 which come with Acrobat
Reader, it'll convert them into Type 3 fonts, explode the file size,
make things look awful on Acrobat Reader, lose hinting, etc. And the
texinfo manuals use Computer Modern, so they'll look icky.
> > Now, pdftex, that's good.
> Do you have an URL for that? I did some searches, but all I found was
> Windos sites...
http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/
dvipdfm might also work well for this, but I can't remember the URL
offhand.
--
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
Old hitchhikers never die-they just throw in the towel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-12-05 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-05 1:20 Manualitis Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-12-05 3:28 ` Manualitis Alan Shutko
1999-12-05 4:16 ` Manualitis Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-12-05 4:23 ` Manualitis Shenghuo ZHU
2000-04-22 0:12 ` Manualitis Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-12-05 15:32 ` Alan Shutko [this message]
1999-12-05 14:33 ` Manualitis Kim-Minh Kaplan
1999-12-06 0:51 ` Manualitis Russ Allbery
1999-12-06 8:15 ` Manualitis Karl EICHWALDER
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