Re: PDF woes

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:23:48PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote:
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>    I'm pretty sure the problem is that Acrobat Reader (at least version 4)
> cannot handle Type3 fonts in an intelligent way.
Evidently. :-/

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>    In any case, a little bit of googling turned up this page
> (http://www.isds.duke.edu/~sto/pdf.html) which details steps on how to avoid
> ugly PDF; note, I am currently stuck in NT4, which prevents me from verifying
> the steps. This page (http://www.aeroconf.org/cgi-bin/autharea/latex.htm) seems
> to confirm it. Hopefully this will create beautiful PDFs for you. :) Let me
> know if it works.
Ahh, I suppose it would've worked for other LaTeX documents; but in my
case, some of the glyphs I use in my orthographic transcriptions are from
the more esoteric parts of the TIPA font, which requires the T3 encoding.
For some reason, that seems to force it to come in type3... I'm still
trying to figure out if there's a way to force everything to come out in
type1. I tried the dvips -Pwww trick, but it didn't seem to do much.  I'll
have to investigate this a bit more.

But anyway, all this trouble is more than enough to convince me that the
simplest solution would just be to encourage more people to use GSView :-)


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