Re: [gnome-love] GTK Book: A Journey Through GTK+

[Germán Poó Caamaño <gpoo ubiobio cl>]

Le dimanche 13 mars 2005 à 10:08 -0700, Elijah Newren a écrit :
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 07:21:24 -0800 (PST), Muthiah Annamalai
> <dearestchum yahoo co in> wrote:
> > Hello Hackers!
> > Im writing a Book on GTK titled 'A Journey Through
> > GTK+', started with another guy, Ishan Chattopadyay.
> > The book is organised like 13 chapters with 5
> > appendices.
>
> Wonderful!
>
> > It is GFDL'ed. You can find a incomplete version here.
> > http://www.nitt.edu/profiles/profiles/2001/ec10130/GtkBook.pdf
>
> Doh!  An incompatible license.  Oh well, separate project I guess.  :)
>
> > Im using LaTeX to write the documents, and writing
> > example applications in C/GTK. I also happen to
> > write Octave-GTK , a GTK binding for Octave.
> > [http://octave-gtk.sourceforge.net].
>
> It appears that you're using latex and then dvips from viewing the pdf
> file.  That's fine if people just print the pdf file, but it tends to
> look awful when viewing the pdf file in a pdf viewer.  Is there any
> chance you could use pdflatex instead which fixes this problem?

Another way to get the same issue solved is to use:

\usepackage{pslatex}

in the header of the LaTeX file.  It makes LaTeX use PostScript fonts
instead of MetaFonts.

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