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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label pkfix</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Replacing Type 3 fonts in PostScript</h3>
-<p/>One often comes across a PostScript file generated by
-<i>dvips</i> which contains embedded PK fonts; if you try
-to generate PDF from such a file, the quality will be poor.
-<p/>Of course, the proper solution is to regenerate the PostScript file,
-but if neither the sources nor the DVI file are available, one
-must needs resort to some sort of patching to replace the bitmap fonts
-in the file by outline fonts.
-<p/>The program <i>pkfix</i> (by Heiko Oberdiek) will do this
-patching, for files created by &#8220;not too old versions&#8221; of
-<i>dvips</i>: it finds the fonts to be replaced by examining the
-PostScript comments <i>dvips</i> has put in the file. For each
-font, <i>pkfix</i> puts appropriate TeX commands in a file,
-which it then processes and runs through <i>dvips</i> (with switch
-<code>-Ppdf</code>) to acquire an appropriate copy of the font; these copies are
-then patched back into the original file.
-<p/>If your source file is older than <i>pkfix</i> can deal with,
-there&#8217;s still a modicum of hope: <i>pkfix-helper</i> examines the
-bitmap fonts in a document, compares them with the metric
-(<code>.tfm</code>) fonts on your system and comes to a view of which
-font might be which. The program reports on &#8220;poor&#8221; matches, and
-there are options for confirming, or replacing, its guesses. The
-technique (which sounds implausible) is successful enough to be worth
-a try.
-<p/>A further option is Frank Siegert&#8217;s (shareware)
-<a href="http://www.pstill.com">PStill</a>, which is capable of processing
-the PostScript it is distilling, and one option is to replace bitmap fonts
-in the file with Type 1 versions.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>pkfix</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/pkfix.zip">support/pkfix</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/pkfix/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pkfix.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>pkfix-helper</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/pkfix-helper.zip">support/pkfix-helper</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/pkfix-helper/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pkfix-helper.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=pkfix">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=pkfix</a>
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