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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label fuzzy-gs</title>
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<h3>Fuzzy fonts because <i>Ghostscript</i> too old</h3>
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<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>
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