Re: dvips-ing TETEXDOC.dvi
No doubt this is an FAQ somewhere, but if I use the '-Ppdf' option when dvips-ing TETEXDOC.dvi, the 'fi' ligatures turn into English pound symbols. Further processing of the PS file with gs's ps2pdf doesn't help. Using the '-Pcmz' option avoids this problem. Perhaps I have misunderstood the reason for using '-Ppdf': should it be used only if one intends to immediately distill the PS file with Adobe's Acrobat distiller program? (Since I don't have this program, I can't test whether the resulting PDF file would be OK.) That -Ppdf turn on a feature called character shifting and dvips is not smart enough to detect that this does not work with all fonts. This is fixed in newer version of dvips, but with the old version, you can use -Ppdf -G0. Thomas
dvips-ing TETEXDOC.dvi
Hi, No doubt this is an FAQ somewhere, but if I use the '-Ppdf' option when dvips-ing TETEXDOC.dvi, the 'fi' ligatures turn into English pound symbols. Further processing of the PS file with gs's ps2pdf doesn't help. Using the '-Pcmz' option avoids this problem. Perhaps I have misunderstood the reason for using '-Ppdf': should it be used only if one intends to immediately distill the PS file with Adobe's Acrobat distiller program? (Since I don't have this program, I can't test whether the resulting PDF file would be OK.) Thanks, Ch. Pinon
Re: dvips-ing TETEXDOC.dvi
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Thomas Esser wrote: That -Ppdf turn on a feature called character shifting and dvips is not smart enough to detect that this does not work with all fonts. This is fixed in newer version of dvips, but with the old version, you can use -Ppdf -G0. It would be helpful to have a more precise definition of newer. I have noticed that Mandrake 9.0 appears to have split their tetex 1.07 package. Although most teTeX 1.07 systems have the older dvips, Mandrake's dvips from tetex-dvips-1.0.7-60mdk.i586.rpm does not exhibit the problem (sorry I don't recall the dvips version that worked -- it is installed on a laptop that is locked up for the night in my office). -- George White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
