Randolph J. Herber writes: > Adobe PDF address the fonts issues by including scaled and > bitmapped used character subsets of the fonts used when those > fonts are available at the time of conversion and if the no, Acrobat Distiller does this, PDF does not. keep the distinction > the file). Adobe PDF addresses the included figures by > converting the images to bitmaps if converters for that > figure type is available (otherwise, as I understand the sorry? are you talking perhaps about Acrobat Exchange? NOT the way I'd recommend you make PDF files. > I can use Acrobat Reader to produce a print datastream for my Epson FX > printer? This is news to me; tell me how. I can do so with DVI files. depends on your operating system. > I can use Acrobat Reader to produce a print datastream for my NEC LC890 > Adobe PostScript level 1 printer? acroread -toPostScript foo.pdf > In particular, tell me how to Acrobat Reader to run on my AT&T 3B1 > where I run LaTeX and dvips. dont. run GhostScript, or xpdf. > I thought that Y&Y was heavily into supporting TeX and LaTeX > on a variety of platforms. Apparently, I am mistaken. > this is an underhand and unfair statement. Y&Y make no secrets whatever about their products. Berthold never claims that `dviwindo' works on an SGI! Y&Y's font products, on the other hand, work with any TeX systems, and great kudos to Berthold (IMHO) for maintaining such high standards in their fonts. Sebastian