[lug] ps2pdf and correct/nice fonts

[Ralf Mattes]

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.

Ah, you shouldn't have to use ps2pdf directly. I usuall use 
pdfjadetex directly. The output looks pretty good both viewed
with Adobe Acrobat and printed out on Windows printers. We switched
all our documentation to docbook and haven't regreted it (yet :-).
BTW, if you want to go the Windows way you could also create RTF
output from jade (jade -t rtf -d ... ). I sometimes do this to
import docbook documents into Adobe FrameMaker (finally out for
Linux).

 Ralf

> 
> Andrew Diederich
> andrew at netdelivery.com
> 
> 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2
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