[pdftex] slightly OT: ps2pdf vs. distiller

[Adrian Heathcote]

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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