Solved! Re: [Gllug] ps2pdf quality

[Pete Ryland]

non-free ghostscript could also be an option.  It's always one year ahead of
the free release.

Pete

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:43:05PM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> On Tue 11 Dec, Rev Simon Rumble made the following spurious claims:
> 
> > So now I can print from Windows machines here at work and have a
> > lovely PDF sitting on a file server seconds later.  However the
> > quality of ps2pdf leaves a bit to be desired.  In particular the fonts
> > look really heavy on-screen but print perfectly.
> 
> Have worked out the problem.  The machine this is running on is
> currently on the very outdated Debian stable and so contains a way old
> Ghostscript.  Doing it on my (unstable) machine at home produced
> beautiful output and smaller files to boot.  I'll upgrade the machine
> to testing (which has the same version as unstable at the moment)...
> 
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