From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 15: 3:53 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 3C14137B405 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 15:03:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from svmarshal.bytecraft.au.com (svmarshal.bytecraft.au.com [203.39.118.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A4B43FCB for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 15:03:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com) Received: from wombat.bytecraft.au.com (Not Verified[203.39.118.3]) by svmarshal.bytecraft.au.com with MailMarshal (v5,0,3,78) id ; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 10:04:25 +1100 Received: from mjtdev1.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com (unknown [10.0.17.42]) by wombat.bytecraft.au.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 730343E37; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:03:18 +1100 (EST) From: Murray Taylor Organization: Bytecraft Systems To: parv , Murray Taylor Subject: Re: dvipdfm DVI - PDF converter SOLVED Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:03:17 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200303061044.08960.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> <200303061159.22412.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> <20030306093146.GA4321@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20030306093146.GA4321@moo.holy.cow> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303071003.17292.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 On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 20:31, parv wrote: > 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? > From the documentation lynx /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.05/doc/Ps2pdf.htm -dPDFSETTINGS=configuration + /screen selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Screen Optimized" setting. + /printer selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting. + /prepress selects output similar to Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting. + /default selects output intended to be useful across a wide variety of uses, possibly at the expense of a larger output file. As this is whole effort is so they can screen read my work it's ok ... I (naturally) print the document via LaTeX -> dvips -> lpr > I get much better results -- readable & small files -- from latex > & dvipdf, rather than pdflatex or ps2pdf. > As in original post dvipdf does not grab the epsfig stuff I'm using > > - parv -- Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer --------------------------------- Bytecraft Systems & Entertainment Phone: 61 3 8710 2555 Fax: 61 3 8710 2599 Direct: 61 3 9238 4275 Mobile: 61 0417 319 256 Email: murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com or visit us on the web http://www.bytecraftsystems.com http://www.bytecraftentertainment.com ************************************************************************ This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. ************************************************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message