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In article <92479@brunix.UUCP> gvr@cs.brown.edu (George V. Reilly)
writes on the problem of GNU documentation requiring TeX which not
everybody has:

   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.

Two counterarguments:

   * if you do this in public, you will be flamed for tastelessness in
     comp.text.tex and comp.fonts :-)

   * fancy graphics sometimes don't come out like expected (e.g. those
     in the Calc-2.00 manual )-:

Anyway, I could provide PS versions (using Times, Helvetica and
Courier of course :-) of all Texinfo documents relating to GNU, but I
don't want to spend disk space and transatlantic FTP bandwidth...
FTP.UU.NET would be one solution, but maybe I could put it on
PREP.AI.MIT.EDU:/pub/gnu/[texinfo-ps/] ?
-- 
Simon Leinen.
Laboratoire d'Intelligence Artificielle
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne