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From: hansm@duteca7.uucp (Hans Mulder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: questions about print quality with dvi2ps v. 2.10gf
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Date: 12 May 89 16:06:23 GMT
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Reply-To: hansm@duteca7.uucp (Hans Mulder)
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
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We are having serious print-quality problems when using dvi2ps (version
2.10gf) together with a TI omnilaser 2115 and a DEC printserver 40. Regular 
11pt latex fonts (cmr10.329gf or cmr10.1000pxl) are too thin and, when 
compared with the built in Helvetica fonts (which is used for pictures), 
they look rather pale.

1. are these problems printer related. Do the TI and DEC printers notoriously
generate pale LaTeX output? If my memory serves me right, I never had those
problems when using Apple or QMS postscript printers with dvi2ps.

2. or are our problems dvi2ps related. Is there a fix to improve the print 
quality. We checked the gf.c file, but the transformation from gf to
postscript looks straight forward.

3. is there a possibility to use the built in fonts in LaTeX/dvi2ps.
I guess we would need a set of tfm files and a dvi2ps modification.
We would prefer using the built-in fonts over CMR. Does someone uses 
such a setup?

Thanks in advance.

Hans Mulder

mail:  duteca!hansm@uunet.uu.net
phone: 31-15-785021