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mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
: In <H.eg.OrqZKspCnj2@wpcst1.phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de> kruel@wpcst1.phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Thomas-Martin Kruel)
: >  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.
:
: dvips includes bitmap representations of the fonts used into the postscript
: file. The postscript utilities tell the printer to shrink that bitmap which
: is a lossy process. If you work with scalable fonts this problem is overcome
: by 'hints' in the font description that f.e. tell the renderer to leave the
: vertical bar of an 'e' at least 1 pixel wide. This is not possible with the
: bitmap fonts you use.
:
: There are two solutions. 1) Tell dvips to use 600dpi fonts (which hopefully
: exist or can be calculated with metafont). This most likely will give enough
: resolution so that you don't miss details. 2) Use scalable Postscript fonts.
: Dvips supports virtual fonts for the standard Postscript font families. There
: are some styles for TeX and LaTeX that exchange the standard Computer Modern
: fonts with Postscript fonts.
:
There is one more solution, which in my opinion is much better. That is
to use the -x option of dvips to reduce the page on the dvi level (dvips
will use smaller pk-fonts) and then use the pstops program *without any
reduction* to rearrange the pages. Or to use the dvidvi program and forget
all together about the psnup or pstops programs.

: Regards,
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: Michael van Elst
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