Degradation of fonts quality from PS to PDF

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sat May 20 20:04:48 UTC 2006


On 5/20/06, Gérard Milmeister <gemi at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> > Sometimes, the conversion from PS to PDF with ps2pdf results in a PDF
> > file in which the quality of fonts was degraded. Can one improve that?
> >
> Was the PS file created using dvips? Then it may possible it includes
> bitmap, and not outline, fonts. These will render poorly in PDF. If
> you have the original tex file you need to recompile it and run it
> through dvips. The FC TeX setup should automatically use Type1 fonts
> except if you use T1 encoding. If you only have the PS file you are
> out of luck.

Thanks, Gérard. Yes, I only have the PS file and I am truly convinced
that it was created with LaTeX+dvips.

Paul




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