Re: Improve font rendering of PostScript files?

["Roderich Schupp" <roderich schupp googlemail com>]

On 3/26/07, Carlos Garcia Campos <carlosgc gnome org> wrote:
> > I'm currently using Evince on an Ubuntu Feisty to view documents I
> > create with LaTeX. I prefer to work with the PostScript format rather
> > than the PDF one, but the font rendering is not so good. Here is an
> > example:
>
> hmm, I don't really know, evince just uses the gs interpreter to render
> PS documents, so that rendering is done by gs, not by evince.

Check which Ghostscript you're using - it can make
quite a difference, as shown below. Both are driven by evince
with the exact same commandline, the bad one is from  ESP Ghostscript 8.15,
the good one is from GPL Ghostscript 8.54.

Cheers, Roderich

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