[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. 

OK, just ran

   dvips -Pcmz -o document.ps documentsource.dvi
   ps2pdf document.ps

and the resulting document.pdf still has fuzzy text.

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