On Sunday 31 August 2003 23:03, Anton Ertl wrote: > Bernd Paysan wrote: > > A much better way to generate a PDF out of texi is to use texi2dvi --pdf > > (this adds hyperlinks, a TOC, and automatically uses the PS fonts). > > Fortunately it does not use the ugly PS fonts, but instead still uses > the nice Computer Modern fonts.
Yes, that's what I meant, the type 1 versions of the CM fonts. > The downside of this method is that > the result is 1.5MB instead of 1MB with the other method or 0.5MB for > the .ps.gz. The smallest PDF is generated by dvipdfm, around 800kB. I've looked into the texi2dvi --pdf output, and apparently all the many links it creates are taking up the additional space (each PDF link is an object of its own, and breaks up the surrounding text). I'm thinking about creating yet another gforth-0.6.2.exe, this time with PDF instead of PostScript. The Windoze users rarely can use PostScript (they can't even simply send it to the printer), so a PDF would allow them to print it as intented. I don't feel sorry about them when they need to wait longer for their downloads, anyway ;-). > > I added a pdf > > rule to the makefile. I also think that -Pcmz should be done for the > > Postscript file anyway, as bitmap fonts aren't really state of the art. > > The only advantage of the bitmap font is that it is smaller. > > By about 160KB uncompressed and 84KB gzipped. Another advantage of > the bitmap fonts is that they look better when vieved with gs. On the > printer they look equally good. Hm, the bitmaps look a tiny bit darker on the screen, and only if the printer has no higher resolution than 600dpi, there is no difference. > > [Anton, if you get this only directly, not through chaossolutions.org, > > they are still blocking me] > > They are still blocking you. Martin Randy's way of automatically blocking any suspected spam sender (so that complaining doesn't help) makes sure that all freemailer users will be blocked on the long run. This is barely tolerable for a mailing list hoster, especially, since ezmlm allows only authorized posting, anyway. Since he uses the same domain for his address, too, complaining is quite difficult, too (I can complain from work, but since I've already done that, it doesn't seem to help). -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
