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["Dung TaQuang" <address@hidden>]

Hi,
you can replace Type3 cmr with the Type 1 Variant
Ciao
Taquang

Adam Warner wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> You may be aware that Adobe Acrobat Reader generates seriously horrible
> looking text whenever Type 3 bitmap fonts are used in a PDF. Ghostview
> has no problem displaying a nice looking onscreen document. But Adobe's
> Acrobat Reader doesn't do anti-aliasing of bitmap fonts and uses a
> terrible rendering algorithm.
>
> This happens when exporting a Postscript document and converting it to a
> PDF using ps2pdf. Plus it is not possible to use the Find dialogue box.
>
> One way to work around this is to export a TeXmacs document to LaTeX and
> then use pdflatex to generate the PDF. This may result in conversion
> issues and I imagine it could be difficult when dealing with documents
> that contain graphics.
>
> So what are the thoughts about how to support PDF generation in the
> future? To overcome the bitmap issue (and to create smaller PDF files as
> well) embedded outline fonts would have to be exported instead of
> bitmapped ones.
>
> How are postscript files currently created by TeXmacs? Are bitmap or
> outline fonts generated? (perhaps ps2pdf is creating the bitmapped
> fonts).
>
> PDF export is suprisingly not on the "Suggestions" page at texmacs.org.
> However the FAQ states:
>
> "Pdf output can be achieved by converting postscript documents. We would
> very much appreciate your help for writing and improving converters for
> TeXmacs documents."
>
> But as I've outlined this support is not presently ideal (but I also
> understand help is needed to implement a better system! Can't hurt to
> understand how that system could be implemented though).
>
> Regards,
> Adam