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In article <2654@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
| But, since PostScript printers are becomming more and more common in
| shops of all kinds, including one's home, I thought that it would be
| a good idea if someone with TeX and a PostScript printer could
| format the various guides in PostScript and make available the
| results on ftp sites like uunet.  Then those of us without TeX that
| do have PostScript printers can get printed copies of the needed gnu
| docs.

Agreed: PostScript copies of the documents would be convenient
for many people.

If you do generate a PostScript version of a document for ftp, you
should use PostScript outline fonts (Times, Helvetica, and Courier:
the lowest common denominator of PostScript fonts) instead of the
default Computer Modern bitmaps.  Why?
   -	Using printer-resident fonts results in smaller PostScript
	files.
   -	Metafont tunes the bitmaps according to your printer's
	characteristics (write-white, write-black, etc.).
	The recipients' printers may be significantly different.
	This isn't a problem when the PostScript engine rasterizes
	Type 1 outline fonts.
   -	If the recipients are using printers whose resolution
	is not 300dpi, then the CM bitmaps will have to be
	scaled.  This looks horrible.
Also: use a good DVI-to-PostScript converter, such as Rokicki's
dvips 5.47.
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