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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2013-06-28 22:26:18 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2013-06-28 22:26:18 +0000
commit98d97883f83dd86032b6b058692d87b9fa83926b (patch)
tree8de3c144ec825fc9cc4b1fe255b60875a8b9e1bb /Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-hyp+pdf.tex
parentaa0b340189383ff3014db4eaec3aeb58687d6207 (diff)
FAQ-en (7jun13)
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@31019 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-hyp+pdf.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-hyp+pdf.tex
index 2be76882aaa..6d1b36bea0f 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-hyp+pdf.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-hyp+pdf.tex
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-% $Id: faq-hyp+pdf.tex,v 1.6 2012/03/31 09:22:17 rf10 Exp rf10 $
+% $Id: faq-hyp+pdf.tex,v 1.1 2013/05/31 22:58:09 rf10 Exp rf10 $
\section{Hypertext and \acro{PDF}}
@@ -53,30 +53,31 @@ for the \ProgName{dvipdfm}/\ProgName{dvipdfmx} \acro{DVI} drivers.
While there is no free implementation of all of \ProgName{Adobe}
\ProgName{Distiller}'s
-functionality, any but the very oldest versions of \ProgName{Ghostscript}
+functionality, any but the implausibly old versions of
+\href{http://www.ghostscript.com/}{\ProgName{ghostscript}}
provide pretty reliable distillation (but beware of the problems with
\Qref*{\ProgName{dvips} output for distillation}{Q-dvips-pdf}).
For viewing (and printing) the resulting files, Adobe's
\ProgName{Acrobat} \ProgName{Reader} is available for a fair range of
platforms; for those for which Adobe's reader is unavailable, remotely
-current versions of \ProgName{ghostscript} combined with
-\ProgName{gv} or \ProgName{GSview} can display and print \acro{PDF}
-files, as can \ProgName{xpdf}.
+current versions of \href{http://www.ghostscript.com/}{\ProgName{ghostscript}}
+combined with \ProgName{gv} or
+\href{http://www.ghostgum.com.au/}{\ProgName{gsview}} can display and
+print \acro{PDF} files, as can \ProgName{xpdf}.
-In many circumstances, \ProgName{Ghostscript} combined with a viewer
+In some circumstances, a
+\href{http://www.ghostscript.com/}{\ProgName{ghostscript}}-based viewer
application is actually preferable to Acrobat Reader. For example, on
Windows Acrobat Reader locks the \extension{pdf} file it's displaying: this
makes the traditional (and highly effective) \AllTeX{} development
cycle of ``Edit\arrowhyph{}Process\arrowhyph{}Preview'' become
-rather clumsy~--- \ProgName{GSview} doesn't make the same
-mistake.
+rather clumsy~--- \href{http://www.ghostgum.com.au/}{\ProgName{gsview}}
+doesn't make the same <mistake.
\begin{ctanrefs}
\item[\nothtml{\rmfamily}Acrobat Reader]download from \URL{http://get.adobe.com/reader}
\item[dvipdfm]\CTANref{dvipdfm}
\item[dvipdfmx]\CTANref{dvipdfmx}
-\item[ghostscript]Browse \CTANref{ghostscript}
-\item[GSview]Browse \CTANref{gsview}
\item[gv]Browse \CTANref{gv}
\item[hyper.sty]\CTANref{hyper}
\item[hyperref.sty]\CTANref{hyperref}
@@ -104,6 +105,7 @@ World Wide Web, there are four technologies to consider:
\begin{ctanrefs}
\item[texinfo]\CTANref{texinfo}
\end{ctanrefs}
+\LastEdit{2013-05-30}
\Question[Q-hypertex]{The \emph{hyper\tex{}} project}
@@ -132,14 +134,16 @@ Further details are available on \URL{http://arXiv.org/hypertex/}; there
are two commonly-used implementations of the specification, a
modified \ProgName{xdvi} and (recent releases of)
\ProgName{dvips}. Output from the latter may be used in recent
-releases of \ProgName{ghostscript} or Acrobat Distiller.
+releases of \href{http://www.ghostscript.com/}{\ProgName{ghostscript}}
+or Acrobat Distiller.
\Question[Q-dvips-pdf]{Quality of \acro{PDF} from \PS{}}
\keywords{blurry fuzzy crippled}
Any reasonable \PS{}, including any output of \ProgName{dvips}, may be
converted to \acro{PDF}, using (for example) a sufficiently recent
-version of \ProgName{ghostscript}, Frank Siegert's (shareware)
+version of \href{http://www.ghostscript.com/}{\ProgName{ghostscript}},
+Frank Siegert's (shareware)
\href{http://www.pstill.com/}{\ProgName{PStill}}, or Adobe's (commercial)
\ProgName{Distiller}.
@@ -268,10 +272,11 @@ file without the fonts. In either case, you need to
So you've done everything the \acro{FAQ} has told you that you need,
correct fonts properly installed and appearing in the \ProgName{dvips}
output, but \emph{still} you get fuzzy character output after
-distilling with \ProgName{ghostscript}.
+distilling with \href{http://www.ghostscript.com/}{\ProgName{ghostscript}}.
The problem could arise from too old a version of
-\ProgName{ghostscript}, which you may be using directly, or via a
+\href{http://www.ghostscript.com/}{\ProgName{ghostscript}}, which you
+may be using directly, or via a
script such as \ProgName{ps2pdf} (distributed with
\ProgName{ghostscript} itself), \ProgName{dvipdf}, or similar.
Though \ProgName{ghostscript} was capable of distillation from