Re: CHAT: Handwriting (was: Re: CHAT: Coming out of the conlang closet)

En réponse à Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>:

>
> I don't know if it's your fault or mine, but whenever I convert
> PostScript files from you into PDFs (or get PDFs from you), they look
> really rather dodgy, even though PS files I generate from LaTeX
> sources
> come out nicely nicely. So would I be able to steal the sources off
> you
> and generate my own PDFs? (I dislike the interfaces of all the PS
> viewers out there that I've used, much preferring Adobe's
> (proprietary)
> Acrobat 4 for Linux's.)
>
> (I imagine the problem is that your computer doesn't have Type 1 PS
> fonts accessible by the LaTeX-to-PS driver.)
>
Well, I don't know about that. What do you use to convert your files? dvipdfm?
Indeed if you lack Type 1 fonts it's likely to do a bad job. That's why I use
PDF995. It can work from any format (in fact, the only thing it does is to add
a new printer that will make the PDF files, so you can use it from any
application that can print), makes a great job in embedding fonts (although
I'll have to add a few more correspondences. But since I don't know exactly
what fonts I have on my computer, nor what which ones are Acrobat fonts, which
ones are Type 1 and which ones are TTF, it's difficult :)) ), and is not too
bad when everything else has failed :)) . The PDF I made from H. S. Teoh's
grammar file is not extraordinary, but its quality is quite acceptable and it
doesn't look dodgy at all :)) . For a free product it makes quite a good job.

Christophe.

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