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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 |