On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Don Simons wrote:
> Thanks so much to Takanori Uchiyama for making the Type 1 versions
> available. We've been talking about this for quite some time.
I agree; this is a major step forward.
>
> I have to be honest and report that getting them installed and printing
> has not been easy or straightforward, and I still can't get it all done
> under Windows98. The procedure I have than works OK for making a pdf is
>
> Linux (tetex) dvips => Win98 Acrobat Distiller
I didn't try under MSWin; I don't have the Distiller.
> Now the real reason for this post is to point out what seems to be a
> purely Linux problem: I also succeeded in making a pdf directly with
> dvipdfm. The printed output was OK except for the horizontal beams.
> Every one protruded beyond the stem where it should have stopped. I'm
> guessing the horizontal beams are drawn in postscript, while the slanted
> ones are fonts. It looks like dvipdfm is extending the lines that make
> up the beams with a semicircle whose diameter equals the line width. So
> the questions are: Has anyone else noticed this? Are there any options
> that could fix it? Or is this just a feature of the way dvipdfm draws
> lines and/or solid boxes? (I haven't yet loaded the new versions of the
> fonts, but I don't think they would affect this).
To install the fonts and use them with dvipdfm under Linux was easy
and gives
nice scores: I can't reproduce the problems with the horizontal
beams. However, I did not succeed with pstill from the ps-files,
but I did not try hard, since dvipdfm works.
Christof
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