[OS X TeX] problem using gs 6.52 with teTeX

Ross Moore ross at ics.mq.edu.au
Wed Mar 6 17:59:22 EST 2002



> Hi
> 
> Since the version of gs which is included with teTeX for MacOSX (TeXshop) does
> not have support compiled in for X11, I just downloaded the source code for
> ghostscript (version 6.52, it seems) and compiled it myself (wow...) and
> replaced gs6.01 with that. Now several (may be related) problems arise:
>  - running dvips on dvi files that I have and viewing the result with gs6.52

Does  dvips -Ppdf  <filename>
work for you ?

It's pretty standard for teTeX to have this printer-config file available.


> leads to very poor font rendering quality on screen; pdf versions of those ps
> files obtained with ps2pdf (which, as far as I understand, runs gs as well)

Another solution, which I use with LaTeX2HTML, is to configure  gs  to find
the Type 1 fonts itself, and not put *any* fonts into the .ps file created
by  dvips, unless there is no Type 1 font available on the system.

This saves memory and disk space, and could even be slightly faster overall.


> display the same bad quality in Acrobat Reader 5, and in addition the display is
> very slow. When I look at the font info in Acroread for those pdf files, I find
> only "Type 3" fonts mentioned instead of good old Type 1 fonts.
>  - opening those pdf files within texshop or letting texshop make them itself
> from dvi leads to a mostly blank page, with just a few characters spread here
> and there on the screen...
>  - running xdvi (that I also compiled from source) on the same dvi files gives a
> satisfactory display, which, as far as I understand, tends to mean that the
> problem lies in dvips (that's the version that came with texshop, I only
> replaced gs-related stuff).
> 
> Any idea about what is going on? I would very much like to keep an X11-enabled
> gs around to display PS files, since I did'nt find any version of MacGS working
> on MacOSX.

Hope the above comments help.

	Ross Moore

> 
> Thank you,
> Olivier Larroche
> 
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