[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Certainly ps2pdf can make good use of Type 1 fonts, so I don't understand
> your comment. Also, there are have been many changes to ghostscript,
> which is now at version 7.0, including many improvements to the pdfwrite
> device, so bad experiences with some previous version may no longer apply.
The version that comes with tetex only deals with Type 1 fonts for postscript
standard fonts. It seems to convert latex Type 1 fonts to bitmaps. This is
seconded by ps2pdf's man page:
Currently ps2pdf does a reasonable job on filled/stroked
graphics, on bitmap images, and on text in the 14 built-in
PDF fonts in the intersection of Windows and ISO Latin-1
encodings. It converts all other text in the PostScript
file to bitmaps in the PDF file (although it does only write
the bitmap for each character once per page, and only on
pages where the character is actually used). It does not
compress the output at all, except for character bitmaps: it
can't use LZW because of Unisys' patent claims, and it
doesn't yet use other compression methods for images.
I clearly see the advantage of "free" software. I just pointed out the
apparent difference in the result, which is visible in acroread!
Clemens
