[Mac OS X TeX] PDF conversion (encore)

[Gerben Wierda]

Maybe you can try dvipdfm

G

On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 12:18 , Vinayak Vatsal wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I'm having a hard time printing a .dvi file somebody sent me. I have 
> tried to make the conversion dvi --> pdf many different ways (command 
> line, TeXShop, MacDviX, MacGhostviewX) but none of them work. The best 
> I have managed is to get a file which displays okay in Reader, but 
> doesn't print properly -- some fonts (but not all) get substituted with 
> Courier. The ones that are left out are from the standard CM/AMS family.
>
> I'm not sure what's up. As far as I can tell, some fonts are not 
> getting properly embedded. (Perhaps because the bsr fonts are 
> incomplete?) The same thing happens if I use dvips --> ps --> pdf on my 
> own tex files. In this situation, it seems that pdflatex works fine.
>
> If anybody can help me diagnose this, I'd be very grateful. I 
> understand that pdf(la)tex is the preferred method for generating pdf, 
> but sometimes one gets dvi files from other people, and it would be 
> nice to have the other method working as well.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
>
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> Vinayak Vatsal
> Department of Mathematics
> University of British Columbia
> Vancouver, BC
> Canada
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