[Mac OS X TeX] PDF conversion (encore)

[Vinayak Vatsal]

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.

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

Thanks.



--On Wednesday, January 30, 2002 12:41 PM +0100 Gerben Wierda 
<sherlock at rna.nl> wrote:

> Maybe you can try dvipdfm
>
> G
>
> On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 12:18 , Vinayak Vatsal wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I'm having a hard time printing a .dvi file somebody sent me. I have
>> tried to make the conversion dvi --> pdf many different ways (command
>> line, TeXShop, MacDviX, MacGhostviewX) but none of them work. The best
>> I have managed is to get a file which displays okay in Reader, but
>> doesn't print properly -- some fonts (but not all) get substituted with
>> Courier. The ones that are left out are from the standard CM/AMS family.
>>
>> I'm not sure what's up. As far as I can tell, some fonts are not
>> getting properly embedded. (Perhaps because the bsr fonts are
>> incomplete?) The same thing happens if I use dvips --> ps --> pdf on my
>> own tex files. In this situation, it seems that pdflatex works fine.
>>
>> If anybody can help me diagnose this, I'd be very grateful. I
>> understand that pdf(la)tex is the preferred method for generating pdf,
>> but sometimes one gets dvi files from other people, and it would be
>> nice to have the other method working as well.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Vinayak Vatsal
>> Department of Mathematics
>> University of British Columbia
>> Vancouver, BC
>> Canada
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Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
Canada 

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