Re: Hardcopy docs available

Okay, you're right. I just updated my Ghostscript to 7.00 (just out) and it
produced very nice PDFs. I can upload them somewhere if you give me an FTP
address.

Ken Hirsch

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From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Ken Hirsch" <kenhirsch(at)myself(dot)com>
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Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Hardcopy docs available

> [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]
> > There may be a better way to create PDF files if you have TeX. See
> > http://www.tug.org/applications/jadetex/
> >
> > I haven't used Jade, so I don't know, but the PDF files that are output
by
> > pdftex and pdflatex are smaller than those created by ps2pdf and easier
to
> > read on your monitor (I think because they use the built-in PDF fonts
where
> > they can.)
>
> There is nothing inherent with TeX that makes embedded fonts more or
> less likely. You will need Ghostscript >= 6.0 to embed any nonstandard
> fonts.
>
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