On Monday 16 July 2001 16:54, Vern W Heesch wrote:
> I have been playing with converting text files to ps format using a2ps,
> then to pdf format using ps2pdf. For the most part it seems to work.
> However, I cannot figure out how to maintain the format or font sizes of
> the original document. I have read about everything I could get my hands
> on but still cannot figure it out. I have been using kword and saving as
> a txt file and proceeding from there. I have been using the following
> commands:
>
> a2ps --borders=0 --output=<filename> <original-document>
> ps2pdf <psfilename> <ps-to-pdf-file-name>
>
> If anyone has been doing this, or has any clue what I am doing wrong,
> please let me know. This is driving me crazy!
Well, a basic thought here... Since a normal text file doesn't really
*have* any fonts associated with it... how can you expect the output file to
maintain the original fonts?? There aren't any in the original file.........
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