Re: pdftops (was: Re: XPDF Not fuckware?)
* I wrote [2001-03-17T11:59+0100]:
> * Ronald Lembcke <es186@fen-net.de> [2001-03-16T00:39+0100]:
> > pdf2ps does a bad job IMO as it seems to convert everything (font including)
> > to bitmaps, making the file much larger and slower.
> IIRC, only Type-3 fonts are converted, and when producing PDF you
> should consider using Type-1 fonts anyway. I think this was pointed
> out in another thread here, about producing PDF from LaTeX.
*argh* this is of course NOT TRUE...
with `pdf2ps' the output looks really bad, compared to `pdftops'! Plus:
[235]% la sample-pdf*
-rw-r--r-- 1 michaelw users 5248760 Mar 17 12:30 sample-pdf2ps.ps
-rw-r--r-- 1 michaelw users 2989467 Mar 17 12:31 sample-pdftops.ps
Sorry for any confusion caused...
Cheers,
Michael
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