[Tuglist] Another use of -Ppdf

[H.S.Rai]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Radhakrishnan CV wrote:

>     Should not this be default option? What is the use of proucing
>     *.ps in raster form?
>
>  True, but you dont have all the fonts in TeX in type1 format. We got
>  the type1 format of CM fonts only relatively recently by the
>  donation from Bluesky Research. Even now we have several fonts still
>  in raster format only and those are used by many users around the
>  world.  No wonder if dvips which was written several years ago chose
>  the raster option as default.

O.K., It may be a subject of debate that what should be
default value. Keeping in mind a beginer and with aim to
popularise TeX/ LaTeX, list members and you can suggest
better.

H.S.Rai