[lug] ps2pdf and correct/nice fonts

Wayde Allen wallen at boulder.nist.gov
Wed Jan 5 16:51:58 MST 2000


On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Andrew Diederich wrote:

> I've thought about giving something like LyX or docbook like format a go at
> work, but the problem is getting the output in a softcopy format that looks
> good to print from Windows boxes.  postscript is great printing from linux
> to a postscript printer, but most folks don't have that luxury.
> 
> I just gave ps2pdf a quick try, but I think it converted everything to
> type-1 fonts, or some other nasty variety.  Any idea how I can get a good
> looking pdf doc from postscript/dvi/other?  I'm currently running SuSE
> 6.1/6.3, if that helps.

Contact Adobe, they are supposedly rolling out a commercial pdf distiller
product for Linux.  

Another option I was just playing with yesterday (I've got a LaTeX paper
that Microwave Journal wants to publish) is to run the LaTeX document
through the latex2html converter and then import the html document into
your word processor of choice. 

Finally you could install ghostscript (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/) on
the windows PC's.  That should allow them to print the postscript
document.


- Wayde
  (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)





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