Re: pdf - and on Windows?

[James Mansion]

KHMan wrote:
> Speaking as a off-and-on user of Lout... Can you be more specific 
> about "not been.very impressed by ghostscript"? It used to be that the 
> TeX DVI -> PS -> PDF toolchain produces Type 3 fonts which are 
> rendered bitmaps from the Metafont stroked originals. That looked 
> horrible and rendered slowly.
Quite.
> With pdfTeX, as with Lout, everybody is using stroked fonts
pdfTeX I've found fine, but that doesn't use ghostscript does it?
> I am under the impression that Ghostscript works well these days.
That's encouraging.
> Not sure what you mean, but often we point people to the User's Guide 
> as an example of what Lout can produce. You can get them here: 
> http://lout.wiki.sourceforge.net/Documentation
I'm aware lout itself is fine, but I need a convenient complete 
toolchain reall, and I'd rather not have to run on *nix all the time, 
out of habit as much as anything.
> No Free Software forces any watermarks on the user... I guess maybe 
> you are discussing a Distiller demo.
Well, or other pdf generators.  I'm not concerned about using Free 
Software per se, and will spend money once I'm sure the project is workable.

James