Re: Improve font rendering of PostScript files?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 12:12 +0200, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> El s� 24-03-2007 a las 16:55 +0100, Fran�s Ingelrest escribi� > Hello,
> > 
> > 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:
> > 
> > PostScript: http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/7899/evincepspf7.png
> > PDF: http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/7899/evincepspf7.png
> > 
> > It's the same document, I only used the command ps2pdf to create the
> > PDF file. Is is possible to improve the font rendering of PostScript
> > files to get the same results as with PDF files?
> 
> 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.

Yup.  On the other hand, for PDF, it uses Poppler with the cairo
backend, so you get all the cairo goodness...

One needs to write a cairo driver for gs to get the same quality output.

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