On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:35:53AM +0800, Bob Williams wrote (wyy sez):
> Thanks Orly, Doc and William!
>
> Yes, the problem is in font conversion, and, as William pointed out,
> there are many ways to get from tex to pdf.
>
> I've gone to working with the Tex file itself ->latex ->dvips -> ps2pdf
> but even with specifying \usepackage{times}, \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} and
> telling ps2pdf to embed fonts, it still looks great under Linux and lousy
> under windows. William, your files look good under a Windows version of
> Adobe Acrobat Reader? Maybe I need to try dvipdf and going from dvi to
> pdf rather than ps to pdf.
>
convert ps to pdf sucks big time. i suggest you do not go this way. and
using dvipdf also sucks big time. i use dvipdfm (note the additional m.
this was only recently included in tetex).
and yes my pdf files look good under windows. at least, good enough for
me. i do not have time to play around with the fonts and this is the
reason why i resort to using dvipdfm.
> I'm sure Orly's right about the mapping - but not sure of a recipe that
> will get it the way I want it. I had hoped someone had one.
>
> Thanks. I'll try juggling parameters. It's in there somewhere.
>
> BTW, this is part of my effort to get documents that convert well from
> html to pdf. Untweaked html2latex works pretty well with VERY simple html
> markup - still not doing graphics. I decided to go from html to LaTex,
> so that I move from most restrictive to least restrictive.
>
what an endeavor! ACENT is trying keep documentation and presentation in
LaTeX. i write my class material in LaTeX too. this is because it is
easier to convert LaTeX to something than the other way around. btw,
latex2html is so cool kasi for courseware stuff that need to be posted
in a website.
> Thank you, again. I'll report back....
>
good luck.
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