[Mac OS X TeX] PDF conversion (encore)

Ross Moore ross at ics.mq.edu.au
Wed Jan 30 18:27:29 CET 2002



> Thanks.
> 
> I tried a few more tests, and the results may be of interest to you. It 
> seems that the problem is with the something in my TeX distribution -- I 
> tried to create the ps on a Unix box, and then moved it back to create the 
> PDF on my Mac using Kiffe's Macps2df (=gs 7) and that worked fine. However, 
> the same ps source gives bad results when using the gs 6 from your latest 
> distribution. Also, Macps2pdf doesn't work on the ps created locally with 
> dvips on my Mac (that may be a problem with my map file or something.) I 
> can send you the dvi file if you want to test it yourself.

Try    dvips -Ppdf 

By default, dvips is *not* configured to find the .pfb versions
of the TeX and AMS fonts.

If -Ppdf doesn't get the right fonts for you, then try:  -Pcmz -Pamz
which are known on some systems.


Hope this helps,

	Ross Moore

 
> I am using the TeXLive that was current as of 1 or 2 days ago.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 

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