Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Jean-Pierre Chrétien writes: > > Steve Litt writes: > > Only the type 1C are embedded. To produce the PDF I did the following: > > > > latex $1.tex > > dvips -o $1.ps $1.dvi > > ps2pdf12 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true - > > dEmbedAllFonts=true $1.ps > > >

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-16 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Steve Litt writes: ? > > slitt mydesk:~$ gs --version > 8.64 Hmm... would you mind to send me (privately) your example ? jeanpierre dot chretien at free.fr -- Jean-Pierre

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 15 November 2009 13:00:25 Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: > I use ps2pdf14 here (in fact, ps2pdf, which calls ps2pdf14). I do not know > if this makes a difference, but I don't understand how it could. > The problem may come from GhostScript istself (the switches are passed to > gs). > > Her

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Steve Litt writes: > > slitt mydesk:/d/at/books/mental$ pdffonts pthrive.pdf > name type emb sub uni object ID > - --- --- --- - > Courier-Bold Type 1no

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-12 Thread Sebastian Guttenberg
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 11:15 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi Sebastian, > > I read your doc and did what it asked, but still some of my fonts aren't > embedded: That's not my doc, that's the one of Jean-Pierre. My message was only the answer to his. ;) I cannot help you there, sorry. - Sebastian

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 09:01:55 Sebastian Guttenberg wrote: > > Your test exmaple is quite striking, as the latex file asks explicitly > > for Type 1 fonts and the pdf output has Type 3 fonts :-( > > > > If you cretae pdf docs for others using ps2pdf, you will be better with > > embedded fon

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-11 Thread Sebastian Guttenberg
> Your test exmaple is quite striking, as the latex file asks explicitly for > Type > 1 fonts and the pdf output has Type 3 fonts :-( > > If you cretae pdf docs for others using ps2pdf, you will be better with > embedded > fonts as well. I have added an entry in the pdf FAQ about this in the wik

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-11 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Sebastian Guttenberg writes: > > Well, it's one thing to optimize a file for the pdf-output and another > that I am working usually with dvi and ps, but from time to time need > to produce a pdf-version of it to somebody (who might use acroread on > windows). It cannot be that the standard output

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Sebastian Guttenberg writes: > Jean-Marc wrote: >> > but in both cases >> > LyX still includes the package fontenc in the exported file. >> >> And is it a problem in practice? > > Not in practice any longer, but in principle: If I am not using a > package at all, then it shouldn't be loaded I thi

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 9.11.09, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Sebastian Guttenberg writes: > > Sorry that I have posted my question to lyx-devel and not lyx-user, but > > the reason was to suggest to make it possible to deselect the package > > fontenc. And I still think that all packages should be deselectable. But

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-09 Thread Sebastian Guttenberg
Jean-Marc wrote: > > but in both cases > > LyX still includes the package fontenc in the exported file. > > And is it a problem in practice? Not in practice any longer, but in principle: If I am not using a package at all, then it shouldn't be loaded I think. Loading it just increases the probabi

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Sebastian Guttenberg wrote: > However, for me it is not > possible to really deselect the package fontenc. I can choose another > coding (like OT1) or I can leave the coding blank, but in both cases > LyX still includes the package fontenc in the exported file. The trick is to enter "default" to P

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Sebastian Guttenberg writes: > Günter told me also about this location of the font-encoding setting > (indeed I wouldn't have searched it there). > However, for me it is not > possible to really deselect the package fontenc. I can choose another > coding (like OT1) or I can leave the coding blank

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-09 Thread Sebastian Guttenberg
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > It is actually deselectable. > The font encoding is very special because it is specified in global > preferences (Output>LaTeX pane). This is from historical reasons, and > should probably be moved to Document settings. Günter told me also about this location of the f

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Sebastian Guttenberg writes: > Sorry that I have posted my question to lyx-devel and not lyx-user, but > the reason was to suggest to make it possible to deselect the package > fontenc. And I still think that all packages should be deselectable. But > my specific problem for the moment is solved,

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-09 Thread Sebastian Guttenberg
Thanks a lot JMarc and Günter for your interesting explanations! I've tried now the LatinModern font which works indeed better. Also changing the encoding to OT1 worked (if I don't want to search for Umlauts ;-) ) Sorry that I have posted my question to lyx-devel and not lyx-user, but the reason wa

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-09, Sebastian Guttenberg wrote: > --=-mP/gqFkSw2Oj9z5Utvva > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Guenter Milde wrote: >> This is (most probably) a side-effect of using different fonts. >> Unfortunately, you do not specify what about the PDF is so much worse. >

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Sebastian Guttenberg writes: > Well, it's one thing to optimize a file for the pdf-output and another > that I am working usually with dvi and ps, but from time to time need > to produce a pdf-version of it to somebody (who might use acroread on > windows). It cannot be that the standard output (w

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-08 Thread Sebastian Guttenberg
Guenter Milde wrote: > This is (most probably) a side-effect of using different fonts. > Unfortunately, you do not specify what about the PDF is so much worse. Thanks for your answer and sorry that I was not more precise. I thought that perhaps it was a known problem. In general the text looks a b

Re: problems with pdf-quality and fontenc-package

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-08, Sebastian Guttenberg wrote: > Hi all > I discovered several times that the quality of pdf-files (at least at > the screen) is much much much worse when the package "fontenc" is > included (using pdflatex). This is (most probably) a side-effect of using different fonts. Unfortunatel