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From: madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Tex on NeXTstation using HP series II
Summary: use -D300 on dvips for other printers, use TeXview for screen
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.235422.6953@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 91 23:54:22 GMT
References: <1991Apr1.172647.6639@menudo.uh.edu> <NWC.91Apr1153244@galileo.shearson.com>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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In article <NWC.91Apr1153244@galileo.shearson.com> nwc@sisyphus.shearson.com writes:
>Well... I noticed that a document looks WORLDS better if you view it with
>TeXview vs. using dvips and Preview.... 
>I thought that was odd.

Odd perhaps, but not unexpected.  dvips makes a PostScript file with
imbedded bitmap fonts for a 400 dpi device.  If you Preview that file,
PostScript will attempt to render those bitmaps on the 92 (?) dpi
screen, but not do a very good job.  TeXview, on the other hand, calls
Metafont to make bitmaps for the screen's resolution, which look just
fine.

This also explains the other fellow's problem, which was he was trying
to print a PostScript file with 400 dpi fonts on a 300 dpi printer.
Again, PostScript allows this, but can only do so well.  The fix is to
use -D300 on the dvips command line to get Metafont to make fonts of the
correct size.

(By the way, the other fellow's mail address bounced my response, hence
this posting.)

Then it looks simply lovely.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu