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+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label fuzzy-gs</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Fuzzy fonts because <i>Ghostscript</i> too old</h3>
+<!-- crippled blurry -->
+<p>So you've done everything the FAQ has told you that you need,
+correct fonts properly installed and appearing in the <i>dvips</i>
+output, but <em>still</em> you get fuzzy character output after
+distilling with <i>ghostscript</i>.
+<p>The problem could arise from too old a version of
+<i>ghostscript</i>, which you may be using directly, or via a
+script such as <i>ps2pdf</i> (distributed with
+<i>ghostscript</i> itself), <i>dvipdf</i>, or similar.
+Though <i>ghostscript</i> was capable of distillation from
+version 5.50, that version could only produce bitmap Type 3 output of
+any font other than the fundamental 35 fonts (<i>Times</i>,
+<i>Helvetica</i>, etc.). Later versions added 'complete'
+distillation, but it wasn't until version 6.50 that one could rely on
+it for everyday work.
+<p>So, if your PDF output still looks fuzzy in <i>Acrobat</i>
+<i>Reader</i>, upgrade <i>ghostscript</i>. The new version
+should be at least version 6.50, of course, but it's usually good
+policy to go to the most recent version (version 8.12 at the time of
+writing - 2003).
+<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-gs">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-gs</a>
+</body>