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- From: Richard.Kooijman@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: booklet printing with dvips/psnup: poor output
- Keywords: dvips, psnup, postscript
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- Date: 2 Jan 93 19:27:49 GMT
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- kruel@wpcst1.phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Thomas-Martin Kruel) writes:
-
- > I have a problem with printing a document in 2up style, i.e. two A4
- >pages resized to A5 in landscape orientation on one A4 page.
-
- > 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.
-
- >So here goes my question:
-
- > What may be wrong ? How could I improve the resolution ? Should I
- >get a newer dvips ? Or change the resolution to 400dpi ? Is there any
- >hidden feature in the `psutils'-code or even some better stuff to do
- >that ?
-
- The CM fonts of TeX are bitmap fonts and if those are scaled down
- to smaller sizes, the results will not be good.
-
- The best solution is to use Postscript fonts in your documents
- which are vector fonts and can be scaled down without problems.
-
-
-
- Richard.
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