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Carlos del Castillo castillo@auracom.com.mx
Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:46:25 -0600


Heiko:
    Thanks for the info, just a cuple of questions. Could you tell me how

to setu dvips as qou mention, and where can I find the other fonts and
how do I use them.

I'm not very familiar with Latex I'm a novice.


        Thank you very much for answering.



Heiko Oberdiek wrote:

> At 11:30 31.10.1999 -0600, Carlos del Castillo wrote:
> >
> >\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined % We're not running pdftex
> >\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,twoside]{book}
> Why not setting dvips here?
>
> >\else
> >\documentclass[pdftex,12pt,letterpaper,twoside]{book}
> >\fi
> >\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> Here is your problem with pdfTeX: Free Type1 versions of the EC fonts
> are not available, so pdfTeX uses bitmap fonts with bad results,
> looking the pdf file on the screen.
> Try packages 'ae' or 'zefonts' instead. They set T1 encoding
> (better hyphenation, ...), but try to use CM fonts instead.
>
> >\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
> >\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined % We're not running pdftex
> With the global setting of dvips (see above) you can omit the
> switch here
>
> >\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
> >\else
> >\usepackage[pdftex]{graphics}
> >\fi
> >% are we in pdftex ????
> >\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined % We're not running pdftex
> >\else
> >\pdfoutput=1
> It is set by hyperref.
>
> >\relax
> >\RequirePackage[colorlinks,hyperindex]{hyperref}
> \usepackage, \RequirePackage is for packages and classes.
>
> >\def\pdfBorderAttrs{/Border [0 0 0] } % No border arround Links
> This is already done in hpdftex.def.
>
> >\fi
>
> \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined % We're not running pdftex
> \documentclass[dvips,12pt,letterpaper,twoside]{book}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \else
> \documentclass[pdftex,12pt,letterpaper,twoside]{book}
> \usepackage{ae}
> \fi
> \usepackage[spanish]{babel}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> % are we in pdftex ????
> \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined % We're not running pdftex
> \else
> \usepackage[colorlinks,hyperindex]{hyperref}
> \fi
>
> Yours sincerely
>   Heiko <oberdiek@ruf.uni-freiburg.de>