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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-pkfix.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-pkfix.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b452169d34d --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-pkfix.html @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +<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 "not too old versions" 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> + + + + + + + + + +Yet another option is Frank Siegert'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="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pkfix.zip">support/pkfix</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pkfix.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/pkfix/">browse</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> +</body> |