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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.


  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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