On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Christian Mondrup wrote:
> 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
> --
> Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer
> Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus
> Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
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