[lug] LaTeX and distilling to PDF

[J. Wayde Allen]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Ronald Kumon wrote:

> Have you tried embedding the fonts into the Postscript file?   Under teTeX
> this is done with the command
>       dvips -Pcmz -o document.ps documentsource.dvi
> which causes dvips to read the "config.cmz" file in the dvips config
> directory and load the necessary font information into document.ps.  The
> embedding increases the file size, but I have found it difficult to get
> good quality, completely portable PDF files without it.  

No, but I was wondering if maybe this might be possible.  Will give it a
try and let you know.

> Also, I use a package called "pstill" for the Postscript to PDF
> conversion, which is freely available for noncommercial use under Linux
> (http://www.wizards.de/~frank/pstill.html).  You have to configure the 
> program to know where all your fonts are, but after that it works quite
> well.

Very cool!  Didn't know about this one.

- Wayde
  (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)