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kruel@wpcst1.phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Thomas-Martin Kruel) writes:

>  I have a problem with printing a document in 2up style, i.e. two A4 
>pages resized to A5 in landscape orientation on one A4 page.

>  Everything works fine except that the output on a SUN SparcPrinter 
>is very poor. The characters come out cribbled, e.g. you can't 
>recognize the vertical bar of an `e' and so on.

>So here goes my question:

>  What may be wrong ? How could I improve the resolution ? Should I 
>get a newer dvips ? Or change the resolution to 400dpi ?  Is there any 
>hidden feature in the `psutils'-code or even some better stuff to do 
>that ?

The CM fonts of TeX are bitmap fonts and if those are scaled down
to smaller sizes, the results will not be good.

The best solution is to use Postscript fonts in your documents
which are vector fonts and can be scaled down without problems.



Richard.
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