[Mac OS X TeX] Re: TeX fonts and Illustrator 10

[Jacques Distler]

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On Sunday, December 30, 2001, at 07:00 PM, "Alessio Guglielmi" 
<Alessio.Guglielmi at Inf.TU-Dresden.DE> wrote:

> Now, Tom Kiffe's macdvi makes for an excellent previewer, because
> it's fast and the quality of fonts on screen is better than that of
> ghostscript (I use Type 1).
>
> I could have the same quality of fonts, and maybe also the same
> speed, by using pdfTeX, but this is not an option (as far as I know)
> with XyPic, since I make use of postscript specials.
>
> So, if I also want to see my figures (and I want) when composing the
> paper, I need a preview attached to them, which I guess must be a
> PICT.
>
> Could I do better? Please consider that speed, quality of fonts,
> XyPic specials are all very important factors for me.
>

TeXShop has two modes of operation, each of which yields a pdf file 
viewable either in TeXShop's own previewer or in AcroRead: pdftex or 
tex->dvips->ghostscript.

Obviously, you cannot use the former with figures (unless you convert them 
to .pdf's). But the latter works fine and is not much slower than using 
pdftex (texing takes a good bit longer than the other two steps in the 
conversion process).

Unless you have some basic objection to PDF, that's what I would recommend 
you use.

JD
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