David Bobroff wrote:
>
> >Probably you haven't installed the dvipdfm utility.
>
> No, I had not heard of it before now.
>
> I discovered some time ago that it was possible to make .pdf files by using
> pdftex rather than tex. They printed just fine whether I was printing from
> Linux or Windows. I must be missing something here. What is the
> advantage? Would these .pdf files not necessarily have printed as well on
> a different printer?
>
> >If you don't have dvipdfm installed on your machine, you could
> >just as well skip that line of the README instructions, if you
> >have it installed somewhere else, find the corresponding directory.
> >Even without dvipdfm, you could still use the fonts with dvips.
>
> Would I be able to use them with pdftex without installing dvipdfm? What
> would I be missing?
With the type 1 fonts introduced you'll experience no quality difference
between the final pdf results of pdftex and dvipdfm. But that is
definitely not the case if you're sticking to the type 3 fonts. In that
case the quality of the pdf generated from the TeX dvi result is
substantially better than that of pdftex. Among the advantages of
dvipdfm is that you don't have to run the MusiXTeX several times if you
want to generate both postscript and pdf out of your source because the
dvi output is used in both cases (dvipdfm and dvips resp.). It also
seems to be more straightforward to handle 'exotic' paper formats like
landscape with dvipdfm compared the pdftex.
[snip]
> I'll bet you're using OpusTeX v0.84. I believe that was the last release
> version. I don't know all the details but OpusTeX is undergoing a complete
> re-write. I believe it will bear very little resblance to MusiXTeX (or
> OpusTeX 0.84) when it is done.
Would you mind explaining a little more detailed about OpusTeX: major
differences in functionality compared to MusiXTeX, from where can it be
retrieved? I don't find it along with MusiXTeX in the CTAN mirror of our
server, sunsite.dk.
Bye
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