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| author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2005-12-29 00:31:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2005-12-29 00:31:48 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dvips-pdf.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dvips-pdf.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..99722f1439c --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dvips-pdf.html @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label dvips-pdf</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Quality of PDF from PostScript</h3> +<!-- blurry fuzzy crippled --> +<p>Any reasonable PostScript, including any output of <i>dvips</i>, may be +converted to PDF, using (for example) a sufficiently recent +version of <i>ghostscript</i>, Frank Siegert's (shareware) +<a href="http://www.pstill.com/"><i>PStill</a></i>, or Adobe's (commercial) +<i>Distiller</i>. +<p>But, although the job may (almost always) be done, the results are +often not acceptable: the most frequent problem is bad presentation of +the character glyphs that make up the document. The following answers +offer solutions to this (and other) problems of bad presentation. +Issues covered are: +<ul> + +<li> + <a href="FAQ-fuzzy-type3.html">Wrong type of fonts used</a>, which is + the commonest cause of fuzzy text. + +<li> + <a href="FAQ-fuzzy-gs.html"><i>ghostscript</i> too old</a>, + which can also result in fuzzy text. +<li> + <a href="FAQ-fuzzy-T1.html">Switching to font encoding T1</a>, which + is yet another possible cause of fuzzy text. +<li> Another problem - missing characters - arises from an + + + <a href="FAQ-distill-prob.html">aged version of <i>Adobe</i> <i>Distiller</i></a>. +<li> Finally, there's the common confusion that arises from using the + <i>dvips</i> configuration file <code>-Ppdf</code>, the + + <a href="FAQ-charshift.html">weird characters</a>. +</ul> +It should be noted that <i>Adobe</i> + +<i>Reader</i> 6 (released in mid-2003) does not exhibit the +"fuzziness" that so many of the answers below address. This is of +course good news: however, it will inevitably be a long time before +every user in the world has this (or later) versions, so the remedies +below are going to remain for some time to come. +<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dvips-pdf">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dvips-pdf</a> +</body> |