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- Subject: Re: booklet printing with dvips/psnup: poor output
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.103717.29978@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il>
- From: dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld)
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 10:37:17 GMT
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- mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- : In <H.eg.OrqZKspCnj2@wpcst1.phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de> kruel@wpcst1.phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Thomas-Martin Kruel)
- : > 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.
- :
- There is one more solution, which in my opinion is much better. That is
- to use the -x option of dvips to reduce the page on the dvi level (dvips
- will use smaller pk-fonts) and then use the pstops program *without any
- reduction* to rearrange the pages. Or to use the dvidvi program and forget
- all together about the psnup or pstops programs.
-
- : Regards,
- : --
- : Michael van Elst
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