On 6/15/05, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > > The post on fonts and printing problems has got me thinking. What is the > > best way to print a Lyx formatted document. > > > > At present I convert to .pdf and print it through Acrobat (I am using > > winxp). Is this the best way or am I likely to come across problems? > > > > I guess the question really is what advantages does using postscript have > > over simply converting to pdf. > > > > All thoughts most welcome as I am about to print over 100 pages of D.Phil > > thesis! > > This may depend to some extent on what fonts you're using, and whether > your printer is a Postscript printer or not. If you use non-Postscript > fonts in a Postscript or PDF file, they either get mapped to "near > match" Postscript fonts (which may not be so near) or converted to > bitmaps. You'll see posts from people exporting PDFs with "fuzzy" > fonts, and the response is always to switch to the ae or pslatex fonts > (or maybe one other choice, can't recall). > > If you have a Postscript printer and you're using ae or pslatex, I don't > think it makes much difference whether you use PDF or PS, as far as text > goes. I'm not sure if it makes a difference when it comes to embedded > graphics. > > If you're using a non-Postscript printer (as I do), the path of least > resistance might be to View | DVI and print from the viewer (yap in my > case). > > If you're using a Postscript printer with non-PS fonts, I'm not sure > whether you're better off with PS/PDF or printing from a DVI viewer.
In any case, Geoffrey could try to print out a few pages with both methods and then he could compare and decide which method is superior. Paul
