* Re: put vector fonts in ps document? [not found] <m3906ay28a.fsf@kali.coe.uga.edu> @ 1999-09-14 20:09 ` Tobias Burnus 1999-09-15 14:00 ` Ed L. Cashin 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Tobias Burnus @ 1999-09-14 20:09 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: NTG-ConTeXt 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: put vector fonts in ps document? 1999-09-14 20:09 ` put vector fonts in ps document? Tobias Burnus @ 1999-09-15 14:00 ` Ed L. Cashin 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Ed L. Cashin @ 1999-09-15 14:00 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: NTG-ConTeXt (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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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