[pdftex] slightly OT: ps2pdf vs. distiller
Adrian Heathcote
adrian.heathcote at philosophy.usyd.edu.au
Tue Oct 8 02:01:29 CEST 2002
I should add that I can certainly see that the ps2pdf version is
slightly fainter---and that perhaps stem width are slightly different.
Does this difference show up in printouts?
A.H.
On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 12:29 AM, Adrian Heathcote wrote:
> 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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