Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.13.0001 +0100]: > as a related question, where should .sty files go in geneeral? grep HOMETEXMF /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf then create that directory, and ./tex/latex/whatever underneath. make your own hierarchy, however you like it. lastly, run `

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.12.2305 +0100]: > Danke. I got an error: File 'times.sty' not found. So, I went to > ctan.org and got the file. Where does it go? I tried > /usr/share/tex/latex/base/, but that didn't work. I'm afraid I don't > know enough about LaTeX to go

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:05:19PM -0600, Gary Turner insinuated: > martin f krafft wrote: > >also sprach Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.10.2351 +0100]: > >> Not sure that's the only cause. Documents created by LaTeX and > >> converted to PDF have the same problem. They look great in gv > >

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-12 Thread Gary Turner
martin f krafft wrote: >also sprach Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.10.2351 +0100]: >> Not sure that's the only cause. Documents created by LaTeX and >> converted to PDF have the same problem. They look great in gv and xpdf, >> and look like crap in Acrobat (in Win). The PDF docs print

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.10.2351 +0100]: > Not sure that's the only cause. Documents created by LaTeX and > converted to PDF have the same problem. They look great in gv and xpdf, > and look like crap in Acrobat (in Win). The PDF docs print nicely from > either platfo

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-11 Thread Gilbert Laycock
>>> Gary Turner writes: > Alan Shutko wrote: >> Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> (This shouldn't be a problem nowadays, since Type 1 >> versions of the Computer Modern fonts have been included with TeX >> distributions for a while.) > How do I get these fonts and/or how do I get TeX

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:25:51PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > >I've had good luck with dvipdfm. Understands hyperref, no messy > >conversions of eps files (use graphicx), no pdflatex headaches... > > > Looking at the man page on this is encouraging. It does, however, thr

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Gary Turner
Eric G. Miller wrote: >On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:59:43PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> Alan Shutko wrote: >> >> >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >True, but the problem with (naively created) TeX documents is that >> >dvips traditionally puts bitmapped fonts into its ps files (as PS Ty

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:59:43PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Alan Shutko wrote: > > >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Not sure that's the only cause. Documents created by LaTeX and > >> converted to PDF have the same problem. > > > >True, but the problem with (naively created)

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text [solved]

2002-12-10 Thread Brian Stults
Tom Badran wrote: On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 4:36 pm, Brian Stults wrote: Hello, When I generate pdf's and view them in acroread (5.0.5) the fonts are very fuzzy. For example... I create a file in OpenOffice using the Arial font which is anti-aliased. I then print it to a postscript file. If I

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Gary Turner
Alan Shutko wrote: >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Not sure that's the only cause. Documents created by LaTeX and >> converted to PDF have the same problem. > >True, but the problem with (naively created) TeX documents is that >dvips traditionally puts bitmapped fonts into its ps f

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Alan Shutko
John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > antialiasing (smoothing) can be turned on and off in the settings in > acroread, That's not the problem. You can turn on all the smoothing you want, and acroread will not handle type 3 fonts well. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not sure that's the only cause. Documents created by LaTeX and > converted to PDF have the same problem. True, but the problem with (naively created) TeX documents is that dvips traditionally puts bitmapped fonts into its ps files (as PS Type 3 fonts).

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread John Griffiths
woooah antialiasing (smoothing) can be turned on and off in the settings in acroread, have you looked there? At 04:51 PM 12/10/02 -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >Alan Shutko wrote: > >>Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I'm using gs 7.05. Some examples of what I described are here: >> >

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Gary Turner
Alan Shutko wrote: >Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm using gs 7.05. Some examples of what I described are here: > >The problem is definitely that the fonts were converted to type 3 >(you can see by going to File->Document Properties->Fonts). > >Why this happened, I'm not sure. I

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Qian Gong
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:52:04PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > > http://grove.ufl.edu/~bstults/sample.html > Xpdf support type 3 fonts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 4:36 pm, Brian Stults wrote: > Hello, > > When I generate pdf's and view them in acroread (5.0.5) the fonts are > very fuzzy. For example... I create a file in OpenOffice using the > Arial font which is anti-aliased. I then print it to a postscript file. > If I view it t

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using gs 7.05. Some examples of what I described are here: The problem is definitely that the fonts were converted to type 3 (you can see by going to File->Document Properties->Fonts). Why this happened, I'm not sure. It looks from the OO PS outpu

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Brian Stults
Alan Shutko wrote: Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Then I convert it to a pdf using ps2pdf. What version of ghostscript are you using? Could you put up a small sample some where? It sounds as if the fonts are getting converted to type 3 fonts, which acroread doesn't display very w

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then I convert it to a pdf using ps2pdf. What version of ghostscript are you using? Could you put up a small sample some where? It sounds as if the fonts are getting converted to type 3 fonts, which acroread doesn't display very well. -- Alan Shutko

acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Brian Stults
Hello, When I generate pdf's and view them in acroread (5.0.5) the fonts are very fuzzy. For example... I create a file in OpenOffice using the Arial font which is anti-aliased. I then print it to a postscript file. If I view it through gv, it looks just as fuzzy at first, but then I choos