Bernhard Lang wrote:
>
> In my configuration ghostscript produces pretty nice pdf-output (from
> ps-files)
>
> the shell script
> -----
> # !/bin/bash
> #
> # make-pdf $1
> #
> # give job name as first parameter (e.g. to convert music.dvi to music.pdf
> # call this script as 'make-pdf music')
> #
> dvips $1
> gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$1.pdf -dNOPAUSE $1.ps quit.ps
> # end of make-pdf
> -----
> should run on any unix machine (gs version is 5.10, dvips is 5.82).
you may need - as I do - to add an output parameter to dvips (-o $1.ps)
in order to avoid the output of dvips to be directed to your printer.
That being said dvipdfm will produce a pdf result with a ghostview
screen rendering a little better than that of 'gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite'.
When viewed with Acrobat Reader the dvipdfm results look remarkably
better than those of 'gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite'
The author of dvipdfm has put specific effords into improving the pdf
output from MusiXTeX dvi input files.
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Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer
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