Re: pdflatex vs. latex | dvips | ps2pdf

[Mats Bengtsson]

> Thanks for the help on getting dvips to use type 1 fonts!
> 
> It turns out that ps2pdf doesn't take advantage of those fonts.  So I now use 
> Acrobat's Distiller, which does an excellent job in creating both small and 
> high quality pdf files.

Which ghostscript version do you have installed (run 'gs -v')?
As I said in an earlier mail, ps2pdf shipped with ghostscript 6.0 
or later does a good job on Type1 fonts.

   /Mats