Re: Cannot get TeX -> PDF with outline fonts to work
You need to make sure you've set dvips to use type1 fonts by default. In
/etc/texmf/dvips/updmap, change:
type1_default=false
to
type1_default=true
then:
/etc/texmf/dvips/updmap
Alternatively, use pdflatex instead of the multiple step approach. (This
breaks some graphics inclusion though.)
ap
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Anders Torger wrote:
>
> I'm trying to make a TeX document into a PDF document, using outline
> (scalable) fonts instead of the default (terribly looking) bitmap fonts.
>
> I have searched the web for information on how to do it, and for modern
> Latex installations it seems to be this simple operation
>
> 'latex myfile.tex' a couple of times to get the dvi, then:
>
> dvips -Ppdf myfile.dvi
>
> ps2pdf myfile.ps
>
> The fake printer pdf (for dvips) is supposed to put in outline fonts
> instead of bitmapped, according to the resources I have found on the
> web. This does not seem to be the case in Debian. I have tried both
> stable and unstable distribution, and the same problem occurs:
>
> bash-2.05a$ dvips -Ppdf myfile.dvi
> This is dvips(k) 5.86e Copyright 2001 Radical Eye Software
> (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2002.07.17:0016' -> myfile.ps
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+0/8000
> --dpi 8000
> ecrm2488
> mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfour and resolution 8000; ignoring mode.
> mktexpk: Can't guess mode for 8000 dpi devices.
> mktexpk: Use a config file, or update me.
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
> dvips: Font ecrm2488 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.
> dvips: Such scaling will generate extremely poor output.
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+0/8000
> --dpi 8000
> ecti1728
> mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfour and resolution 8000; ignoring mode
>
> and so on
>
> I get a postscript file, but that has bitmap fonts in it, thus the
> resulting pdf file from ps2pdf looks terrible, and renders slowly.
>
> It seems like all components needed to be able to include outline fonts
> instead of bitmap fonts are included in the Debian tetex packages, but
> I simply cannot get it to work.
>
> Can someone help me out?
>
> /Anders Torger
>
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