Allan Rae a écrit :
> So how well does dvipdfm work on the User Guide and other docs?
>
> Hmmm... I guess I could find out for myself since it seems to be bundled
> with ghostscript-5.50 and others more recent.
>
> Allan. (ARRae)
I like dvipdfm because you don't need to convert figures, it's eff
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> Here's the output from dvipdfm.
>
> This same file produced a 4MB file with ps2pdf.
839 bytes (or should that be bites) larger than the foo.pdf produced by
pdflatex. Those missing characters seem to be the key.
So how well does dvipdfm work on the
> Mmmm... not too well at all. It's interesting to see what different pdf
> readers do with the output:
>
> gv gives an error but renders most of the first chess board.
>
> xpdf gives blank chess boards and warns that Type3 fonts are in use so
> some bits will be wrong.
>
> Acroread4 has chun
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:33:19PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> > > pdflatex does not seem to work too well with the chess fonts.
> >
> > What happens?
>
> See the attached PDF file and latex input.
Mmmm
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:33:19PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:08:20PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> > > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> > >
> > > > I managed to generate a 46K PDF file (where ps2pdf was genera
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:08:20PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> >
> > > I managed to generate a 46K PDF file (where ps2pdf was generating one
> > > that was 5MB!!!)
> >
> > What size does pdflatex produce
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:08:20PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
>
> > I managed to generate a 46K PDF file (where ps2pdf was generating one
> > that was 5MB!!!)
>
> What size does pdflatex produce on the same file?
>
> Convert your .eps to .pdf if neces
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> I managed to generate a 46K PDF file (where ps2pdf was generating one
> that was 5MB!!!)
What size does pdflatex produce on the same file?
Convert your .eps to .pdf if necessary.
Allan. (ARRae)
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 09:47:52AM +0930, Ben Cazzolato wrote:
> Hi Kayvan
>
> I've just tried the package on several files and I don't see any improvement in
> size when compared to ps2pdf. Do you really see a 100 times reduction in file
> size?
>
> Ben
Only on certain files (I have chess fon
