[pstricks] Replacing \psdots with \pscircle

Shailesh Shirali shailesh.shirali at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 14:34:03 CET 2016


Dear friends,

I am writing an ebook on precalculus topics. My publisher, on seeing the
draft PDF, has told me that there is a difficulty with Type 3 fonts (with
regard to their resolution on tablet screens). I quote from their email:

*"Type 3 fonts are special in the sense that they are not limited to the
restrictions placed on Type 1 fonts and can contain more postscript
commands. In Type 3 fonts the character shapes are defined using ordinary
PostScript language routines, so they are easy to create. Type 3 fonts are
also more flexible in their definition as a result.*

*In your document all Type 3 fonts are embedded.*

*When looking at your pdf I noticed that all references to Type 3 fonts
consisted of 2 glyphs, /Circle and /Bullet (I could find where they were
defined but I could not identify where they were used).*

*I moved backwards in the chain looking at the ps file used to make the pdf
for more clues.  I noticed in the compiled postscript from the DVI file
that the pstricks package you have used in your sources is most likely
where the difficulty has occurred.*

*Reading this (*https://ergodicity.net/2006/09/27/pstricks-and-type-3-fonts/*)
article I came to the conclusion that replacing \psdots with \pscircle may
help to eliminate this problem.*

Could you please let me know whether this is feasible at all (replacing
\psdots with \pscircle)? I have my doubts because the number of arguments
in the two macros is not the same.

I have not provided a MWE, owing to the general nature of this question;
but I could provide one if so required.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Shailesh Shirali
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