Re: Making PDF document in KWord

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net> writes:

> You can create a PS document with TeX and then convert it to PDF
> using 'ps2pdf'; the result is usually poor.

Try making your ps file with dvips -Ppdf file.dvi -o file.ps .  That
will use outline fonts for Computer Modern, which is probably what
the problem is.

> Perhaps KWord is merely creating a PS document and then converting
> it using 'ps2pdf'?

Last I looked at it, KWord's PS output outputted PostScript Type 3
fonts, which display poorly in Acrobat Reader.  I don't know if it
still does this, though, I'd need to see a sample PDF from kword to
tell.  (I don't have it installed.)

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