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Re: Offlang suggestion & counterproposal

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 9, 2002, 19:26
En réponse à "Karapcik, Mike" <Karapcik@...>:

> > I have had a few issues with an older version of 7 only creating the > first page. I haven't tried 7.04 yet. The last build of 6 is > available. > Essentially, in your word processor, print the document to a file, > as a .ps or .eps file. Start GhostView. Open the printer file. Do a > "Convert", and select "pdf".
I didn't know this trick, and it works! I've tried it with a page full of funky fonts, and it comes out OK. Next step is trying with my unfinished Astou grammar, which until now refused to get pdf-ized through dvipdfm, and who got OK through PDFTeX, but the funky fonts used there didn't work out that good.... Well, once tried, I find it less good than PDFTeX. At least that one gets the normal fonts correctly, while the converter of Ghostview makes a mess out of the whole text, regardless of the font (at least, it keeps a unity of looks :)) ).
> It is not as good as Acrobat, but 7 does a clean job. (Version 6 > sometimes has jagged edges on true type fonts.) It helps to set the DPI > to > 600. There are a few other options, such as compatibility level. > > Hope it helps.
Well, thanks for the tip, but the tools I already have work better. I'll just keep it in mind in case I come to points where they don't work anymore :)) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.