Dear Luigi, At Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:06:56 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Marko Schütz wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I have some small diagrams I created with MetaPost in 2005. Just > > recently I wanted to re-run the build of the PDF. It produced a PDF > > but the typography looks awful. so I compared (diff) with the previous > > intermediate files and found that the EPS files produced by the mpost > > run are identical up to timestamps and that it's only the last step > > epstopdf that uglifies the output. I'm suspecting the fault to be with > > the ghostscript or the font installation. Maybe someone here has seen > > this and knows the fix? > Can you also try with epstpdf of latest TeXLive ? > or see here > http://www.mail-archive.com/ctan-ann@dante.de/msg02109.html thank you very much for the hint. Unfortunately, that did not solve the problem. It turns out I guessed right: the problem was with ghostscript and font installation. Ghostscript was not knowing about the type1 fonts in the tex installation. I found Fontmap.cmr on CTAN and its instructions helped me solve the problem. Marko > -- > luigi > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________