After a lot of searching through Usenet archives (comp.lang.postscript mostly), I decided to try installing Ghostscript 7.0.0, and using the ps2pdf command from that version. All is now well. The PDF file looks great online, and still prints perfectly, no matter what font I wind up using. And the file sizes aren't too horrible. They're approximately 50% of the postscript file.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT (somewhat) - ps2pdf tool Unless you religiously use ONLY the basic Postscript fonts (Times, Helvetica, Symbol, etc), you must make sure to configure your Postscript driver to include the fonts that you use in the output file. If you don't do this, you allow font substitution to occur, which usually causes non-Adobe PS interpreters to substitute something "close" (in the same family) but with different character metrics, so your output looks rotten. Note that this makes REALLY BIG PS files. Fonts are huge. -- db
