> No doubt this is an FAQ somewhere, but if I use the '-Ppdf' option when > dvips-ing TETEXDOC.dvi, the 'fi' ligatures turn into English pound > symbols. Further processing of the PS file with gs's ps2pdf doesn't > help. Using the '-Pcmz' option avoids this problem. Perhaps I have > misunderstood the reason for using '-Ppdf': should it be used only if > one intends to immediately distill the PS file with Adobe's Acrobat > distiller program? (Since I don't have this program, I can't test > whether the resulting PDF file would be OK.)
That -Ppdf turn on a feature called "character shifting" and dvips is not smart enough to detect that this does not work with all fonts. This is fixed in newer version of dvips, but with the old version, you can use -Ppdf -G0. Thomas
