Maria Rightley writes:
[snip]
> I need to get a paper, produced in LaTeX, into pdf form for a set of
> proceedings. Everything is fine in doing that (I use pstoedit to
> convert from ps to pdf) except for a few small things:
>
> 1.) One of my figures has lost two of its colors when I view the pdf.
> If I don't get it fixed, it will be annoying to me, but not critical.
>
> 2.) Anytime that I use, oh, say, any Greek letter in equations and
> in the text (say \omega or \gamma), it comes out not right in the
> pdf (for example, instead of omega, I get an exclamation point). I think
> it's because those symbols aren't embedded, and I'm aware that pdfs
> need embedded fonts. Does anyone know how to deal with this problem?
Four things come to my mind:
1) I use ps2pdf (from the gs 5.0 package, the non-free version of
Ghostscript) for all ps-->pdf conversions. The generated PDF is a bit
big. I don't have color figures, so I don't know if this will fix
that problem. I have, however, had very good luck with greek letters
and pretty advanced math (the stuff was for a Laplace Transforms and
Advanced Differential Equations course. Quality impressed the
lecturer quite a bit, too :{)
2) You may want to try using postscript fonts only to get rid of the
fonts problem. I know that those fonts (Times, Helv, etc.) are
included with PDF viewers, and serve as "base" fonts. Just
\usepackage{pslatex}, or process the LaTeX file with `pslatex' instead
of `latex'.
3) There's apparently native support for PDF in TeX in the latest
teTeX packages. I'm not very familiar with it, mind you. It seems
quirky--accepts only PNG input as graphics, postscript fonts only,
etc. But the PDF generated may be better than the one from ps2pdf.
4) If you're using xpdf as a PDF viewer, you will _not_ get output
that looks fine. xpdf does not understand embedded fonts, AFAIK. I
use gv for viewing PDF, and people tell me it looks fine in Adobe's
reader.
That's all I can think of. HTH
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