On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Alexander Haderer wrote: > My opinion: yes. Learn the basics of LaTeX and use pdflatex instead of > latex to create pdf files directly from your tex source. The "old" way of > generating pdf via tex->dvi->ps->pdf via the classic (la)tex commands has > the disadvantage that you have to deal with different ps-fontencodings > (type 1 / type 3 or Pixelfont vs. Outline font) with the bad sideeffect > that your pdfs have crippled and slow display on screen while printing > works fine. google is full of messages regarding this topic.
I agree with the recommendation to learn LaTeX. It's probably the best way to generate PDF output and it's widely used for document generation.
I disagree that one needs to use pdflatex, though. Those side-effects you mention are trivial to get rid of:
1. \usepackage{times} (or palatino or bookman or whatever font
package you like)
Does this work without _any_ problems when you want to use the (tex-default) computer modern fonts? My experiences over the last years with different platforms and latex installations are, that you alway have to "google"-around to get this working. I use LaTeX/pdf output only from time to time so I am not the big expert, but using pdflatex a while ago was the first time I got the CMR fonts into a pdf without any display/print problems. I just made some slight modifications to my latex file necessary for pdflatex (mentioned in the pdflatex doc) and whoops, there it was.
Alexander
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