From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27729 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Manualitis Date: 05 Dec 1999 10:32:18 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164702 26060 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:45:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:45:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA26104 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:39:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAB09141; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 09:38:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 05 Dec 1999 09:39:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA24126 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 09:38:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from s1.nassau.cv.net (s1.optonline.net [167.206.112.6]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA26099 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:38:32 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from hunt108-151.optonline.net (hunt108-151.optonline.net [167.206.108.151]) by s1.nassau.cv.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA08334 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:38:31 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from ats@localhost) by hunt108-151.optonline.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA07108; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:38:30 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ats set sender to ats@acm.org using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "05 Dec 1999 05:16:15 +0100" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4.93 Original-Lines: 27 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27729 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27729 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Alan Shutko 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 - In a variety of flavors! Old hitchhikers never die-they just throw in the towel.