[Gsview] font display question

[Alex Cherepanov]

Dear Mr. Karlsen,

Your PS file was generated by Windows driver. it contaibs
Type 3 raster fonts. Ghostscript cannot convert raster fonts back
to vector fonts. You need to generate PS file with vector fonts.

Different versions of MS Windows have slightly different
print dialog boxes. The following was tested on WinNT 4.0.

Select the Print command in your application.
Press Properties button in the dialog box
Select Advanced tab
Set TrueType Fpnts = Download as softfonts
Set PostScript Options -> TrueType Font Download = Native TrueType

Regards,
Alex Cherepanov

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeffrey Karlsen <jkarlsen@socrates.berkeley.edu>
To: <gsview@ghostscript.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 24 April, 2001 17:07
Subject: Re: [Gsview] font display question


> Dear Mr. Cherepanov,
> I've attached the file in a separate message to your e-mail address.
> I'm not sure if I'm able to use vector fonts.  When I open the PS file
> in Ghostview and select "Convert to vector format," which format am I
> supposed to select?  Do I enter anything in "Default font"?  and so on.
> I tried a few different options, but nothing worked.  I'm working in
> Windows 98 SE.  For the postcript printer I'm using an HP PaintJet XL300
> PostScript driver that I found in Windows.  It allows one to select font
> substitutions, but none of them work.
>
> The reason for this is that the whole project is a little screwy.  I
> created this and many other documents on a Mac using an old lower-ASCII
> font that is incompatible with any Windows font and obsolete on Macs as
> well.  In order to make them usable in Windows, I re-mapped an existing
> font to lower ASCII.  So I thought that making PDF's would be one way to
> make them portable (another of course is to embed the font in a Word
> document, I know, but the PDF looks rather nice when it's done well).
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Cherepanov" <alex@artifex.com>
> To: "Jeffrey Karlsen" <jkarlsen@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>;
> <gsview@ghostscript.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 12:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gsview] font display question
>
>
> > Dear Mr. Karlsen,
> >
> > To avoid jaggy text you need to use vector fonts.
> > If you are using TeX (the most common source of raster
> > fonts) take a look at "Creating quality Adobe PDF files
> > from TeX with DVIPS by Kendall Whitehouse/EMERGE"
> > http://www.utdallas.edu/~cantrell/online/543e.html
> >
> > If you are using Mac or Windows check the settings
> > in your printer driver.
> >
> > You can also send me the PS file.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Alex
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jeffrey Karlsen <jkarlsen@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
> > To: <gsview@ghostscript.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, 24 April, 2001 14:27
> > Subject: Re: [Gsview] font display question
> >
> >
> > > Dear Mr. Cherepanov,
> > > Thank you for your reply.  Yes, when scaled up they do look jaggy.
> Is
> > > there anything I can do when creating the PS file to prevent this
> and
> > > allow AR to display the finished PDF file better?  I emphasize that
> I'm
> > > very much a beginner in these matters.
> > > -Jeff
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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