From: ecashin@coe.uga.edu (Ed L. Cashin)
Cc: NTG-ConTeXt <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: put vector fonts in ps document?
Date: 15 Sep 1999 10:00:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zoyol1g3.fsf@kali.coe.uga.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Tobias Burnus's message of "Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:09:40 +0200"
(This was a thread from the pdftex mailing list.)
Tobias Burnus <burnus@gmx.de> writes:
> 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.
That's interesting to know. I will probably wait, since my past
experiences with installing ghostscript from the source were...
spotted with discomfort.
Thanks for the information.
--
--Ed Cashin
ecashin@coe.uga.edu
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