[comp.text.tex] Problems w. dvips

dirk@dksoft.incom.de (Dirk Koeppen) (06/06/90)

I've some trouble using dvips with my PacificPage PostScript
cartridge for the hp IIP printer. I do not think that it's based
on the cartridge.

If I use dvips the output looks very bad on PostScript fonts. Using
Bookman gives strange ligatures with the 'f' character. Also the kerning
between characters is very bad. Using umlaute (\"o) with italic or slanted
characters places the double-dot some space before the character.

I though it was based on the tfm files and got the afm descriptions
from the printer and converted them using the afm2tfm program but they still
look like the one I found on the dvips 4.21 distribution. Also 5.02 does not
solve the problem.

Using dvi2ps helps but the LaTeX contents chapter looks not very well due
the numbers of the chapter is always written over the chapter name.

Anybody any idea ?

thanks,
Dirk Koeppen