From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 07:24:52 2003 Return-Path: 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 5B0F216A4B3 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:24:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hauptpostamt.charite.de (hauptpostamt.charite.de [193.175.66.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68BF43F85 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:24:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alexander.haderer@charite.de) Received: from postamt1.charite.de (postamt1.charite.de [193.175.66.246]) by hauptpostamt.charite.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72E2F15C06D; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:24:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from chaplin.charite.de (chaplin.str.charite.de [192.168.202.88]) by postamt1.charite.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 345F763471; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:24:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.1.20031010160459.01a7f810@postamt1.charite.de> X-Sender: afrika@postamt1.charite.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:18:38 +0200 To: Tillman Hodgson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Alexander Haderer In-Reply-To: <20031010075910.A30205@seekingfire.com> References: <5.2.0.9.1.20031010144022.01a7bd70@postamt1.charite.de> <20031010123141.GA1925@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> <5.2.0.9.1.20031010144022.01a7bd70@postamt1.charite.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at charite.de Subject: Re: writing pdfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:24:52 -0000 At 07:59 10.10.2003 -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: >On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Alexander Haderer wrote: > > My opinion: yes. Learn the basics of LaTeX and use pdflatex instead of > > latex to create pdf files directly from your tex source. The "old" way of > > generating pdf via tex->dvi->ps->pdf via the classic (la)tex commands has > > the disadvantage that you have to deal with different ps-fontencodings > > (type 1 / type 3 or Pixelfont vs. Outline font) with the bad sideeffect > > that your pdfs have crippled and slow display on screen while printing > > works fine. google is full of messages regarding this topic. > >I agree with the recommendation to learn LaTeX. It's probably the best >way to generate PDF output and it's widely used for document generation. > >I disagree that one needs to use pdflatex, though. Those side-effects >you mention are trivial to get rid of: > 1. \usepackage{times} (or palatino or bookman or whatever font > package you like) Does this work without _any_ problems when you want to use the (tex-default) computer modern fonts? My experiences over the last years with different platforms and latex installations are, that you alway have to "google"-around to get this working. I use LaTeX/pdf output only from time to time so I am not the big expert, but using pdflatex a while ago was the first time I got the CMR fonts into a pdf without any display/print problems. I just made some slight modifications to my latex file necessary for pdflatex (mentioned in the pdflatex doc) and whoops, there it was. Alexander