At 08:05 PM 12/6/99 +0100, Colin Marquardt wrote: >* Eric G Miller <egm2@jps.net> writes: > >> If you don't need them to be CMR fonts (which I don't think Acrobat can >> display well), try '\usepackage{times}'. That'll give you Postscript 1 >> fonts. Since AcroReader only understands 11 fonts, *only* Times Roman, >> Helvetica, Courier [New?], and Zapf Dingbats will render well on the >> display (though bitmap fonts print fine in my experience). The only > >That assumes one is going the ps2pdf route (which uses gs). >Hopefully, gs 6.0 will remove that limitation, but that is not >entirely clear. (Just to state that this is not a limitation of the >PDF format...) pdftex (and, AFAIK, dvipdfm) work fine with >non-standard fonts.
Ah. I missed part of this conversation. So if I use Slink gs then I am doomed to lousy PDF files with anything but Times and friends? Now I understand..... >Another zero $ solution is VTeX from Micropress, which is free >(beer sense) for Linux. It has a PS interpreter built in and can >thus embed EPS figures natively (as opposed to pdflatex, where >one needs epstopdf, which in turn uses gs, with the mentioned >drawbacks for fonts in figures). The EPS problem is the main reason I wasn't using pdfLaTeX. Sounds like epstopdf might be just what I need. Thanks. Ron H-E -- Ron Hale-Evans: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... <http://www.apocalypse.org/~rwhe/> Center for Ludic Synergy: <http://www.ludism.org/> Kennexions GBG artgame: <http://kennexions.ludism.org/> Hexagram-8 I Ching Mailing List: <http://www.apocalypse.org/~rwhe/hex8.html> Positive Revolution FAQ: <http://www.ludism.org/posrev/>