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From: "Ken Hirsch" <kenhirsch@myself.com>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Hardcopy docs available
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:33:52 -0400
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Okay, you're right.  I just updated my Ghostscript to 7.00 (just out) and it
produced very nice PDFs.  I can upload them somewhere if you give me an FTP
address.

Ken Hirsch

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From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Ken Hirsch" <kenhirsch@myself.com>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Hardcopy docs available


> [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]
> > There may be a better way to create PDF files if you have TeX.  See
> > http://www.tug.org/applications/jadetex/
> >
> > I haven't used Jade, so I don't know, but the PDF files that are output
by
> > pdftex and pdflatex are smaller than those created by ps2pdf and easier
to
> > read on your monitor (I think because they use the built-in PDF fonts
where
> > they can.)
>
> There is nothing inherent with TeX that makes embedded fonts more or
> less likely.  You will need Ghostscript >= 6.0 to embed any nonstandard
> fonts.
>
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