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RE: getting good PDF fonts.
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- Subject: DOCBOOK: RE: getting good PDF fonts.
- From: Rick Bronson <rick at viclink dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:48:55 -0700
>
> Did you try with pdfjadetex. It creates directly the output in PDF.
> Just type :
> pdfjadetex test.tex
> and you will get a file named test.pdf
Pascal,
Thanks for your reply.
Yes I've tried pdfjadetex. The font looks amost identical. But I
have another problem with pdfjadetex, you don't seem to be able to use
in-line EPS images which I need.
Maybe you can tell me how to get rid of the message (see below):
> dvips: Such scaling will generate extremely poor output.
Rick
>
>
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> Subject: getting good PDF fonts.
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm running Debian potato with all of the docbook/SGML/Tex stuff
> loaded.
>
> When I do:
>
> jade -t tex -d style.dsl#print test.sgml > test.tex
>
> (where style.dsl contains:)
>
> -----------------------------------------
> (define %body-font-family%
> "Helvetica")
> -----------------------------------------
> Then I do:
>
> jadetex test.tex
> dvips -Ppdf -o test.ps test.dvi
>
> And look at the test.pdf file, the fonts don't seem to be Helvetica
> and they also don't look very good when I zoom in using ghostview.
> As far as I can tell, the "-Ppdf" should be getting me Type1 fonts.
> I'm stumped. Below is the output from dvips.
>
> Thanks for any and all help.
>
> Rick
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2001.06.15:0651' -> test.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 ecrm1728
> 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.
> dvips: Font ecrm1728 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+0/8000 --dpi 8000 ecrm1200
> 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.
> dvips: Font ecrm1200 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+0/8000 --dpi 8000 ecrm1000
> 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.
> dvips: Font ecrm1000 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+0/8000 --dpi 8000 ecrm1440
> 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.
> dvips: Font ecrm1440 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+0/8000 --dpi 8000 ecrm0900
> 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.
> dvips: Font ecrm0900 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.
> <tex.pro><alt-rule.pro><texc.pro><special.pro><color.pro>. [1] [2] [3]
>