Nikhil Joshi nikhil_joshi@gmx.net writes:
preferred over groff. Now I've learnt Latex a little. However the pdf file I create (with the help of dvips and ps2pdf) looks very crappy in acrobat reader. Ghostview however displays the thing quite well. Is this normal? Has anyone tried Latex and stuff ?
The problem is with the fonts. The default fonts on Unix are not very well supported by Adobe. But you can use a font package like helvetica (for serif fonts) by \usepackage{helvet} and your document will look equally fantastic in both gv and Acrobat Reader. There are other fontpackages too.
Most probably we would print the project on a Windows machine ( i guess very few DTP vendors have Linux as of yet :( ). One of my friends told me that pdf files do not print quite well as compared with Microsoft Word files. Is this correct? I'm in a fix. I'm beginning to like Latex. But at the same time I would not like to face problems with the printing and stuff.
M$ Word is one totally unreliable package when it comes to typesetting. I have had the misfortune of using it extensively for typing out a number of thesis & projects. PostScript is a system developed especially for printing and final output. And it works exceeding well.
Has anyone made his/her synopsis/report/article in Latex ? Is there any other good doc formatting system? Please guide
LaTeX is the best of the free world - Acrobat is eXcellent but eXpensive. But there are a number of "user friendly" frontends on both Unix and win32 platforms which sit on top of LaTeX. LaTeX has a steeper learning curve but it is very fast when you are done with the basics.
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