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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Printing
From:       Paul Smith <phhs80 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-06-15 19:05:25
Message-ID: 6ade6f6c050615120529969a3e () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 6/15/05, Paul A. Rubin <rubin@msu.edu> wrote:
> Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
> > The post on fonts and printing problems has got me thinking.  What is the best \
> > way to print a Lyx formatted document. 
> > At present I convert to .pdf and print it through Acrobat (I am using winxp).  Is \
> > this the best way or am I likely to come across problems? 
> > I guess the question really is what advantages does using postscript have over \
> > simply converting to pdf. 
> > All thoughts most welcome as I am about to print over 100 pages of D.Phil thesis!
> 
> This may depend to some extent on what fonts you're using, and whether
> your printer is a Postscript printer or not.  If you use non-Postscript
> fonts in a Postscript or PDF file, they either get mapped to "near
> match" Postscript fonts (which may not be so near) or converted to
> bitmaps.  You'll see posts from people exporting PDFs with "fuzzy"
> fonts, and the response is always to switch to the ae or pslatex fonts
> (or maybe one other choice, can't recall).
> 
> If you have a Postscript printer and you're using ae or pslatex, I don't
> think it makes much difference whether you use PDF or PS, as far as text
> goes.  I'm not sure if it makes a difference when it comes to embedded
> graphics.
> 
> If you're using a non-Postscript printer (as I do), the path of least
> resistance might be to View | DVI and print from the viewer (yap in my
> case).
> 
> If you're using a Postscript printer with non-PS fonts, I'm not sure
> whether you're better off with PS/PDF or printing from a DVI viewer.

In any case, Geoffrey could try to print out a few pages with both
methods and then he could compare and decide which method is superior.

Paul


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