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MacOSX-TeX Digest #508 - Wednesday, December 11, 2002
Re: [OS X TeX] Problems with creating pdf
by "Ross Moore"
Re: Need a symbol?
by "John Johnson"
Re: [OS X TeX] Problems with creating pdf
by "M. Tamer =D6zsu"
Re: [OS X TeX] Problems with creating pdf
by "Themis Matsoukas"
Re: [OS X TeX] Problems with creating pdf
by "M. Tamer =D6zsu"
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problems with creating pdf
From: "Ross Moore"
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:26:50 +1100 (EST)
> I am having a hard time with a paper that I am writing. The paper has
> encapsulated postscript figures (created with Illustrator) that have
> Either Helvetica or Arial text. The TeX engine is TeTeX on OSX 10.1.5. =
The
> postscript file that gets generated shows these figures properly, but
> when I convert the file to pdf, the text gets messed up. The eps files =
are
> generated with fonts saved with documents. Any suggestions would be much
> appreciated.
This seems to depend upon the version of Ghostscript that is installed
on your machine, and called by the software that initiates the
conversion from .eps to .pdf for the images.
When I had similar problems with images for a proceedings volume,
I tried using epstopdf on different computing platforms.
Good results came from a (non-Mac) system which had Ghostscript 6.4
(or was it 6.54 ?) but bad results came from 6.0 and 7.0 .
My investigations led me to conclude that different versions
of Ghostscript have deficiencies, but perhaps of a different kind
depending upon the specific version.
So now I keep several versions of Ghostscript on the Mac,
and check the results of any conversions.
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore
>
> --
> M. Tamer Ozsu
> University of Waterloo
>
>
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Subject: Re: Need a symbol?
From: "John Johnson"
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:42:00 -0500
On Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002, at 20:00 America/Indianapolis, TeX on Mac OS=20=
X Mailing List wrote:
>
> Subject: Need a symbol?
> From: "J=E9r=F4me Laurens"
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:26:19 +0100
>
> Just to point out a valuable source of a huge variety of symbols
> available in LaTeX:
>
[URL snipped]
Thanks for the tip! This is one of the things that I would have looked=20=
for myself, had I had (may be read as "taken") time enough to do so.=20
I've got a copy now!
Later,
John
johajohn@indiana.edu=
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problems with creating pdf
From: "M. Tamer =D6zsu"
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:16:47 -0500
Thank you very much. I'll try converting it on Windows and Unix platforms
tomorrow and see what happens.
=3D=3DTamer
>
>> I am having a hard time with a paper that I am writing. The paper has
>> encapsulated postscript figures (created with Illustrator) that have
>> Either Helvetica or Arial text. The TeX engine is TeTeX on OSX 10.1.5. =
The
>> postscript file that gets generated shows these figures properly, but
>> when I convert the file to pdf, the text gets messed up. The eps files =
are
>> generated with fonts saved with documents. Any suggestions would be =
much
>> appreciated.
>
> This seems to depend upon the version of Ghostscript that is installed
> on your machine, and called by the software that initiates the
> conversion from .eps to .pdf for the images.
>
> When I had similar problems with images for a proceedings volume,
> I tried using epstopdf on different computing platforms.
> Good results came from a (non-Mac) system which had Ghostscript 6.4
> (or was it 6.54 ?) but bad results came from 6.0 and 7.0 .
>
> My investigations led me to conclude that different versions
> of Ghostscript have deficiencies, but perhaps of a different kind
> depending upon the specific version.
> So now I keep several versions of Ghostscript on the Mac,
> and check the results of any conversions.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Ross Moore
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problems with creating pdf
From: "Themis Matsoukas"
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:05:56 -0500
How do you convert your eps figures to pdf? I found that if I do the=20
conversion using epstopdf I see problems similar to these you describe=20=
but if I save the figure as pdf *from inside illustrator* and then run=20=
pdflatex, the final pdf looks fine.
Themis
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 07:47 PM, M. Tamer =D6zsu wrote:
> I am having a hard time with a paper that I am writing. The paper has
> encapsulated postscript figures (created with Illustrator) that have
> Either Helvetica or Arial text. The TeX engine is TeTeX on OSX 10.1.5.=20=
> The
> postscript file that gets generated shows these figures properly, but
> when I convert the file to pdf, the text gets messed up. The eps files=20=
> are
> generated with fonts saved with documents. Any suggestions would be=20
> much
> appreciated.
>
>
> --
> M. Tamer Ozsu
> University of Waterloo
>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problems with creating pdf
From: "M. Tamer =D6zsu"
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:00:37 -0500
This is an older file that goes the route of latex->dvips->ps2pdf.
Therefore, the figures are in postscript. I should save them as pdf within
Illustrator and give that a try.
Thanks for the suggestion.
=3D=3DTamer
> From: Themis Matsoukas
> Reply-To: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List"
> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:05:56 -0500
> To: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List"
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problems with creating pdf
>=20
> How do you convert your eps figures to pdf? I found that if I do the
> conversion using epstopdf I see problems similar to these you describe
> but if I save the figure as pdf *from inside illustrator* and then run
> pdflatex, the final pdf looks fine.
>=20
> Themis
>=20
> On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 07:47 PM, M. Tamer =D6zsu wrote:
>=20
>> I am having a hard time with a paper that I am writing. The paper has
>> encapsulated postscript figures (created with Illustrator) that have
>> Either Helvetica or Arial text. The TeX engine is TeTeX on OSX 10.1.5.
>> The
>> postscript file that gets generated shows these figures properly, but
>> when I convert the file to pdf, the text gets messed up. The eps files
>> are
>> generated with fonts saved with documents. Any suggestions would be
>> much
>> appreciated.
>>=20
>>=20
>> --
>> M. Tamer Ozsu
>> University of Waterloo
>>=20
>
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