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Subject:Re: Fuzzy PDF text From:"Townsend, Emru" <etownsend -at- POSITRON -dot- QC -dot- CA> Date:Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:56:41 -0500
That's happened to me before. I solved it by installing Distiller 3.02
(available from Adobe's Web site).
Emru Townsend
Technical Communications Wiseguy - Product Integration
Positron Public Safety Systems Inc.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
e-mail: etownsend -at- positron -dot- qc -dot- ca
My words are my own. Confuse them with my employer's at your own risk.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beth Friedman [SMTP:bjf -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 2:18 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Fuzzy PDF text
>
> I've searched the Cambridge Publications Techwr-L archives (the OK
> State ones are still down), and didn't find an answer to this.
>
> Someone in the Netherlands sent me a PostScript file to distill to
> PDF. It prints okay, but on-screen, it looks bitmapped.
>
> I suggested that the problem might be that the person who sent me the
> file didn't include the fonts when he generated the PostScript file.
> (He's going from a .tex or .div file to PS.)
>
> Just in case that's not the problem, could it be something at my end?
> There aren't any graphics, so it's not the usual fuzzy graphics
> problem.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
