From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 1:28:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E49BF37B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 01:28:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53CBE43F85 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 01:28:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from parv_fm@mailsent.net) Received: from sdn-ap-011dcwashp0198.dialsprint.net ([63.188.104.198] helo=moo.holy.cow) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18qrgD-0000X5-00; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 01:28:45 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4E21AB39C; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:31:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:31:46 -0500 From: parv To: Murray Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dvipdfm DVI - PDF converter SOLVED Message-ID: <20030306093146.GA4321@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Murray Taylor , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200303061044.08960.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> <20030306001511.GA717@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <200303061126.23441.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> <200303061159.22412.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303061159.22412.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please do not post reply above the quoted text. Also, trim the quoted text appropriate to your reply. in message <200303061159.22412.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com>, wrote Murray Taylor thusly... > > Digging further into the build logs found ps2pdf from the > Ghostscript build which does it perfectly ... YAY. Seriously? I mean doesn't ps2pdf creates bitmapped text font for you thus rendering the PDF file almost unreadable? I get much better results -- readable & small files -- from latex & dvipdf, rather than pdflatex or ps2pdf. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message