Re: put vector fonts in ps document?

Re: put vector fonts in ps document?

[Tobias Burnus]

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

Re: put vector fonts in ps document?

[Ed L. Cashin]

(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