From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/928 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tobias Burnus Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: put vector fonts in ps document? Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:09:40 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <37DEAB84.A48C822F@gmx.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391770 28377 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:49:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:49:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: NTG-ConTeXt Original-To: "Ed L. Cashin" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:928 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:928 Hallo "Ed L. Cashin" wrote: > > If I make a pdf document with pdftex, I get the scalable outline > (vector) fonts, so it looks great. If I do tex -> dvi -> ps -> pdf, I > get bitmap (raster) fonts, and the pdf looks relatively bad. That depends on the methode. > Is it possible to do it so that I get the scalable vector fonts in the > ps document such that when I run ps2pdf (a ghostscript wrapper) I get > nice-looking pdf output? Well you need to include the fonts (as type-1) in your ps file (try e.g. dvips -Pcmz) and you need a Ghostscript > 5.89. Current is 5.93 (+ fix), which lacks in Outline/bookmark support and article support (using pdfmarks), but works reasonably well. The disadvantage with this Ghostscript is (a) it is beta and (b) it needs to be compiled. But a new version (6.0) is due end of September (30), so you may want to wait. PDFTeX is able to include the Type-1 fonts, but with the new Ghostscript, you can also use figures with embedded fonts. See: ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/aladdin/test/ So long, Tobias