On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:35:02PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > I have a hebrew document sitting on the table next to me, made with
> > > LaTeX, viewed by gv and acroread and printed through acroread, and it
> > > looks absolutely fine, even the hebrew parts. If it looks bad for you,
> > > try to investigate any font problems.
> > >
> >
> > I use the default Hebrew font. Should I change it?
>
> The default Hebrew font come only in metafont format, which means it will be
> converted to bitmap when embedded in the PDF.
> IF you want a PDF file that looks good with Acrobat reader, you need to use
> either Postscript type 1 fonts (e.g. Culmus), Postscript type42 fonts,
> or TTF fonts (the latter can be used only with pdflatex, but it is possible
> to convert a TTF font to Postscript type 1 or 42).
>
I thought type42 fonts _were_ TTF fonts. Oh well. I'll try in any case,
but last time I tried to install TTF fonts by converting them to Type 1
first, it was a very long procedure (which involved some old versions of
various programs) and I did not get to Hebrew yet. Can you give me a howto
for it?
> > > I've never used pdflatex, but dvips -> ps2pdf works.
> >
> > Actually it does not (for the default English font). It creates PDFs that
> > look very blurry and awful in acroread 4 or 5. (let me know if you need a
> > screenshot to see what I mean).
>
> It does work by default if you use tetex2.0.
> With earlier versions, you need to write dvips -Ppdf -G0,
> or add the following lines to ~/.dvipsrc
>
Worked like a charm, thanks. Acroread sees it much better now. I'm using
tetex 1.0.7.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> p+ bsr.map
> p+ bsr-interpolated.map
> p+ hoekwater.map
>
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