Re: ps2pdf utils

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:57:50AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jan 2008, Francisco Valladolid wrote:
> > On Jan 6, 2008 2:59 PM, Matthias Drochner 
> > <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost> wrote:
> > > I've been using ps2pdf successfully, mostly to convert .ps
> > > files created by LaTeX+dvips.
> > me too, are converting .ps files from latex, and other programs
> 
> For the specific task of producing PDF from (La)TeX, you can use the
> pdftex or pdflatex applications.  They do .tex -> .pdf directly; you
> don't need the whole latex | dvips | ps2pdf chain.

...and they typically create much better result as they embbed the ttf
version of the fonts and not the bitmap version.

Joerg