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In article <matth.733625099@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Matthew Hannigan) writes:

   [ comp.tex.tex added ]
   [ battles with metafont ]
   In the same thread, I used a PS n-up package to print the
   final postscript four to a page to save some paper. (the
   GNU make doco is 100 pages long.)  It would still be quite readable
   _except_ that resolution of the fonts _as printed_ is something
   to be desired.

   I presume this is because I generated fonts at 300 dpi and when
   they get printed on a 4up page, the effective resolution
   is  half that.  SO, I tried asking for 600dpi fonts.  However
   MakeTeXPK associates the res. with a `mode' which indicates
   the print engine.  So I lied to it, and modified my local
   MakeTexPK and my mf/inputs/<blah>-site.mf file to generate
   600 dpi even for my printer.  But this didn't work for some
   reason; it kept on not recognizing my request for 600dpi
   properly.  (the symptom being that when it doesn't find some
   resoltion printer combination that it likes it goes into
   'proof' mode and starts laboriously showing each symbol in a huge
   X window)

   Q1: IS my analysis correct (I need to generate higher res. tex fonts
   to get better output on an N-up page) 

   Q2: IF so, does anyone have an idea of what I can do to get such
   higher res. fonts.

   Thanks in advance,
	   Struggling.  (Matt Hannigan)

You are better off getting Metafont to do the scaling.  Use dvidvi to
do the n-up shifting and font scaling (there are many heavily-hacked
versions of dvidvi about, they might not all do scaling), then dvips
(hoping you are using it) will get Metafont to build any new fonts you
need at your printer's favourite resolution.

geoff o

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