X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1530" "Wed" "16" "December" "1998" "11:36:51" "+0000" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "36" "Re: portable LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (root@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.158]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08179; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:17:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14280; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:24:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <9.8F3A38B6@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:15:05 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413370 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:15:00 +0100 Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26635 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:14:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]; by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP; for ""; sender "s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk"; id MAA05062; hop 0; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:05:37 GMT Received: from srahtz (actually host srahtz.elsevier.co.uk) by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:13:52 +0000 X-Mailer: emacs 20.3.2 (via feedmail 9-beta-3 Q); VM 6.61 under Emacs 20.3.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <13938.39518.68424.927988@fell.open.ac.uk> <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> <199812151808.MAA19057@dcdrjh.fnal.gov> Message-ID: <13943.39764.234044.94789@srahtz> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199812151808.MAA19057@dcdrjh.fnal.gov> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:36:51 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: portable LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3174 Randolph J. Herber writes: > Adobe PDF address the fonts issues by including scaled and > bitmapped used character subsets of the fonts used when those > fonts are available at the time of conversion and if the no, Acrobat Distiller does this, PDF does not. keep the distinction > the file). Adobe PDF addresses the included figures by > converting the images to bitmaps if converters for that > figure type is available (otherwise, as I understand the sorry? are you talking perhaps about Acrobat Exchange? NOT the way I'd recommend you make PDF files. > I can use Acrobat Reader to produce a print datastream for my Epson FX > printer? This is news to me; tell me how. I can do so with DVI files. depends on your operating system. > I can use Acrobat Reader to produce a print datastream for my NEC LC890 > Adobe PostScript level 1 printer? acroread -toPostScript foo.pdf > In particular, tell me how to Acrobat Reader to run on my AT&T 3B1 > where I run LaTeX and dvips. dont. run GhostScript, or xpdf. > I thought that Y&Y was heavily into supporting TeX and LaTeX > on a variety of platforms. Apparently, I am mistaken. > this is an underhand and unfair statement. Y&Y make no secrets whatever about their products. Berthold never claims that `dviwindo' works on an SGI! Y&Y's font products, on the other hand, work with any TeX systems, and great kudos to Berthold (IMHO) for maintaining such high standards in their fonts. Sebastian