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  2. From: RATZKA@phyth1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de (Wolfgang Ratzka)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
  4. Subject: Re: slides from TeX(tures)?
  5. Message-ID: <MAILQUEUE-101.921119161920.320@rphnw2.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
  6. Date: 20 Nov 92 11:36:09 GMT
  7. Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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  9. X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List
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  11. > From:       "GEORGE WHITE, BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION"
  12. >             <G_WHITE@bionet.bio.dfo.ca>
  13. >
  14. > We have looked into using ghostscript to render PostScript files
  15. > created from TeX, but the font quality is poor compared to either
  16. > the old-fashioned manual methods or the ATM-rendered fonts of the
  17. > above procedure.  I also contacted the makers of Freedom of Press,
  18. > a commercial PostScript render, but they could not assure me that
  19. > their product would handle the Y&Y PostScript CM fonts.
  20. Did you try to use The ATM-fonts (should be standard type-1) with
  21. GhostScript? It does work, at least on a PC, but I don't know whether this
  22. violates anybodies license policy.
  23.  
  24.  
  25.                                                        Wolfgang Ratzka
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  27. |    |   )   Institut f\"ur theoretische Physik \\
  28. | /\ |  \    Lst. Prof. Weise \\ Universit\"atsstra{\ss}e 31 \\
  29. |/  \|   \   W-8400 Regensburg \\ Germany \\ Phone: +49 941 943 2085
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  31. eMail:       ratzka@rphnw2.ngate.uni-regensburg.de
  32.              ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de
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