ps2pdf question

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 luis@lsu.edu wrote:

> 
> 
>  I am running fptex-0.4-beta1 and GSview 2.9
> 
>  I generated a postscript file with
>  Type1 fonts using
>  dvips -Pcmz filename.ps filename.dvi
> 
>  When I use the Distiller to create a .pdf
>  I get a .pdf with Type1 fonts that looks sharp
>  on the screen for my class.
> 
>  I want to get away from the Distiller
>  and use ps2pdf for converting the .ps to .pdf
> 
>  How should I made the call to ps2pdf such
>  the the .pdf uses Type1 fonts?

You can't. You have to tell dvips to use them.  I do so by a -Ppfb flag
and a config.pfb containing

p +bsr.map

but the fine details depends on how recent and how out-of-the-box your
fptex is.

You can also get dvips to omit the fonts and ps2pdf to include them, but
then you will need to write a map file.

> 
>  I suppose this is trivial but I failed
>  miserable. I tried for example:
> 
>  ps2pdf -sfontpath#c:\tex\texmf\fonts\type1 filename.ps filename.pdf
> 
>  but it did not work, I still get Type 3 fonts in the .pdf and it looks bad
>  on the screen.
> 
>  Thank you for any help.
> 
>  Regards, Luis A.
> 
>  Louisiana State University
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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