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- From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: booklet printing with dvips/psnup: poor output
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.194255.2543@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
- Keywords: dvips, psnup, postscript
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:42:55 GMT
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- In <H.eg.OrqZKspCnj2@wpcst1.phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de> kruel@wpcst1.phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Thomas-Martin Kruel) writes:
- > Everything works fine except that the output on a SUN SparcPrinter
- >is very poor. The characters come out cribbled, e.g. you can't
- >recognize the vertical bar of an `e' and so on.
-
- dvips includes bitmap representations of the fonts used into the postscript
- file. The postscript utilities tell the printer to shrink that bitmap which
- is a lossy process. If you work with scalable fonts this problem is overcome
- by 'hints' in the font description that f.e. tell the renderer to leave the
- vertical bar of an 'e' at least 1 pixel wide. This is not possible with the
- bitmap fonts you use.
-
- There are two solutions. 1) Tell dvips to use 600dpi fonts (which hopefully
- exist or can be calculated with metafont). This most likely will give enough
- resolution so that you don't miss details. 2) Use scalable Postscript fonts.
- Dvips supports virtual fonts for the standard Postscript font families. There
- are some styles for TeX and LaTeX that exchange the standard Computer Modern
- fonts with Postscript fonts.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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