[pdftex] fonts

[Hans Hagen]

Christoph Bier wrote:

>- usage of PostScript code (he doesn't want to use ps4pdf or pst-pdf)
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only important when you have embedded ps code

>- hardware limitations: faster dvi output (also with pdfTeX)
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hm, and how about proper previewing

also, on huge docs, an extra dvi -> ps -> pdf sequence is no fun (i'm 
currently processing 500 meg docs -)

>- "cleaner" color management via PS
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eh ... this is  joke, isn't it? pdf's color model ok, and how about 
transparencies and alike?

>- size of the PDF files because of the usage of CFF with Ghostscript
>or Distiller (with impressive examples)
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hm, it all depends on the circumstances

>- optional subsampling of bitmap files to the same resolution
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(pdftex can do downsampling of png); anyhow, i cannot imagien any 
serious tex based workflow (editing cycles and such) where downsampling 
is done each run (waste of time); normally one will prepare graphics 
(either in advance or in a first run)

>- lots of warnings by AcroPro-Preflights on PDFs produced by
>pdflatex (the OP doesn't know whether this problem disappeared in
>the meantime; last time he tested was in August 2004)
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that's a macro package issue; the code that pdftex produces is pretty 
clean and only weird pdfliterals can spoil pfd-x

(what preflights are we talking about; i remember getting mails about 
pdf considered being wrong because they were reported containing bitmaps 
and rgb coors while they were actually all-outline and cmyk, so ...)

>And even using DVI you can use the microtypographic features with
>the DVI output of pdfTeX. Ok, font expansion then needs lots of disk
>space.
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indeed

>>Reading the thread "pdftex
>>versus dvips" should give enough courage to make pdftex the typesetting
>>wonder of the future, even at the cost of loosing backward compatibility.
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>I use pdfTeX for some years now and never observed those problems
>except of bigger PDFs. Can any of those arguments above be weakened?
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