[pdftex] slightly OT: ps2pdf vs. distiller

[Adrian Heathcote]

Are you sure that these small differences are not randomly  
distributed---that you would not get variations like this from a single  
method of production. On my viewer they are so subtle that I'm not even  
sure I know what you're getting at. (Acrobat 5 on OS X 10.2.1) What  
font did you use---it looks like a Garamond?

Adrian Heathcote


On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 09:49 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 12:59 PM 10/7/2002 +0200, Peter Sojan wrote:
>
>> For the curious, here the original documents:
>>
>> Original PS:
>>    http://www20.brinkster.com/lorandis/test.ps
>>
>> PDF with Ghostscript ("ps2pdf"):
>>    http://www20.brinkster.com/lorandis/test_gs.pdf
>>
>> PDF with Distiller:
>>    http://www20.brinkster.com/lorandis/test_distiller.pdf
>
> maybe the differences in the font spec/descriptor (Ascent and  
> CapHeight and alike) determine how the font renderer optimizes the  
> viewing (direction of rounding, snapping, etc) or maybe some hinting  
> mess-up
>
> Hans
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