[lug] LaTeX to Word Doc/RTF

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 16:58, Daniel Webb wrote:
> > I've just started job hunting again and have been maintaining two
> > versions:
> >
> >   - PDF as generated by latex (with the most recent GhostScript
> >       tools from: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ which look nice
> >       both on-screen and in print)
> >
> >   - ASCII (from the PDF by cut-'n-paste with minor edits)
> >
> > Ed
> 
>   What is the trick to making the latex to PDF conversion without the PDF
> looking really pixellated on screen?  I'm using the LyX pdflatex option,
> but it still looks bad on screen.  Printed version looks fine.  Why is this?
> 
>   I looked on Google for the answer to this, but nothing jumped out at me
> as being anywhere near simple.


I posted the answer to this a few months ago but here it is again:

  1) get a recent (v7 or newer) ghostscript (see URL above) and 
     make sure that you also have the ghostscript fonts installed.

  2) use the following commands:

       latex file
       dvips -Ppdf -G0 file
       ps2pdf file.ps

     to produce the PDF.


hth,
Ed


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