On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 11:15:04AM -0400, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:47:29AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > Truetype fonts in pdf seems to work only with pdflatex, not > > dvi->ps->pdf. And the pdflatex way is noticeable faster too. > > People obviously do not bother to learn real LaTeX any more. I don't claim to be an expert on latex. Thats why I say it _seems_ to not work. The only dvi->ps->pdf conversion I tried is the one that lyx does, running this manually isn't something I want to do everytime. > Try > dvips -Ppdf -o file.ps file.dvi > and you'll get Type1 TeX fonts (it's Type1, not TrueType, for printing). > I have no problem using type1 fonts in latex. The problem was to use _TrueType_ fonts because that was what the publisher sent me, and produce a pdf file, because that is what they want. And the font must be embedded, bitmaps aren't resolution independent. The problem was solved by asking for a type1 version of the font, which they happened to have.
> I agree that pdflatex is the more direct way to pdf. I just want to > point out that the first statement is not true. > Fine if you can point out a way to get truetype fonts in latex into a pdf without pdflatex, but type1 won't do that. Helge Hafting
