Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:18:38 +0200 From: Alexander Haderer <alexander.haderer@charite.de> To: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: writing pdfs Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20031010160459.01a7f810@postamt1.charite.de> 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>
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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
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