acroread vs gpdf

murkus · 2004-10-22 14:21:15

hi

For some reason documents in acroread look like shit. Is there something to do to fix it?

take a look:

http://murkus.homelinux.net/images/acro_vs_gpdf.png

.murkus

LB06 · 2004-10-22 14:33:26

I see no reason to use acroread anyway.

murkus · 2004-10-22 14:38:14

LB06 wrote:

I see no reason to use acroread anyway.

Well, let's say it is of academic interest..

.murkus

zeppelin · 2004-10-22 14:41:47

acroread and fonts are not friends.
use gpdf and xpdf if the first is not what you want.
acroread is non-free

paranoos · 2004-10-22 14:42:05

i don't have acroread installed now to tell you exactly how to do this, but there are settings for antialiasing text, lineart, etc...

gpdf does this by default, which is why it looks so good

Snowman · 2004-10-22 16:36:33

My guess is that this document uses postscript fonts which looks ugly in acroread. Maybe gpdf is better at handling ps fonts. A solution, if this is a document you generated with latex, is to use another set of font like Times-New Roman:

usepackage{times}

DanEE · 2004-10-22 17:53:03

I have the same suspicion like Snowman! But after my expirience the pslatex font looks best in acroread. I only use lyx so I don't know who to set it in Latex directly but in lyx you can change it in Format/Dokument (-> German...)

Be aware that you get the same result like in the screenshot also in the Windows version of Acrobat Reader with the postscript fonts.

Snowman · 2004-10-22 22:30:56

DanEE wrote:

But after my expirience the pslatex font looks best in acroread. I only use lyx so I don't know who to set it in Latex directly but in lyx you can change it in Format/Dokument (-> German...)

To use pslatex fonts directly:

usepackage{pslatex}

jrbeire · 2004-10-26 14:52:52

Hi,

If you are generating pdf from a .tex the following method works perfectly for me everytime and the .pdf is fine (generally as good as using distiller but with a slightly greater file size).

1. Ensure your /home contains a file named .dvipsrc which contains the following 2 lines:

p +psfonts.cmz
p +psfonts.amz

2. Do NOT use pdflatex ever. Period.

3. Generate your .dvi

4. Generate your .ps using dvips (from the command line or your editor if using Emacs with Auctex installed)

5. Run "ps2pdf file.ps file.pdf" and enjoy the result.
(ps2pdf has lots of settings one I commonly use is "-dPDFSETTINGS=/press" for best quality or "..=/screen" for minimal file size

Snowman · 2004-10-26 15:29:42

There is also dvipdf which converts directly your .dvi to .pdf
Note: dvipdf is just a script which calls dvips with special options to generate a .pdf file.

murkus · 2004-10-26 16:33:49

jrbeire wrote:

Hi,
If you are generating pdf from a .tex the following method works perfectly for me everytime and the .pdf is fine (generally as good as using distiller but with a slightly greater file size).

Hi,

and thanks for hints.
I'm using lyx as I prefer not to need to learn latex that much.. Is your hint #1. also applicable to using lyx?

.murkus

jrbeire · 2004-10-26 18:13:01

Yes hint #1 should work for lyx - as I imagine lyx is also using dvips?
I had the same problem as you and stumbled across the fix somewhere on the web - it forces dvips to substitute postscript fonts for the native latex fonts during conversion to .ps

Regards, John.

skeeterbug · 2004-10-26 19:45:10

I use acroread because out of laziness I sometimes (often ) use the export to pdf function in openoffice and xpdf / gpdf won't read them (at least last time I tried). Maybe there's been an update to the rendering engine or something though, I should try again.

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acroread vs gpdf

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