From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/934 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ecashin@coe.uga.edu (Ed L. Cashin) Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: put vector fonts in ps document? Date: 15 Sep 1999 10:00:12 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <37DEAB84.A48C822F@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391776 28426 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:49:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:49:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: NTG-ConTeXt Original-To: Tobias Burnus In-Reply-To: Tobias Burnus's message of "Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:09:40 +0200" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:934 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:934 (This was a thread from the pdftex mailing list.) Tobias Burnus 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