Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:37:30 -0600
From: Eric Rudd <rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of DviPDFm 0.9.4 uploaded
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> This is to announce that the DJGPP port of version 0.9.4 of the DviPDFm
> package is available from SimTel.NET mirrors worldwide:
>
>  ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/tex/dpdf094b.zip
>  ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/tex/dpdf094s.zip

Eli, let me thank you for making this port available.  It installed
painlessly and it solved a long-standing problem that I had.

The problem was that if I used dvips to produce Postscript, and then used
Distiller to produce PDF, the bit-mapped fonts produced poor-quality PDF
documents: though the documents printed satisfactorily, my Acrobat viewer
took over 2 seconds to draw a full screen of text (making for maddenly
slow scrolls), and had very poor viewing quality as well.

The dvipdfm program produces high-quality anti-aliased text on the screen
that draws quickly, and dvipdfm also obviates the intermediate step of
producing Postscript as well.

-Eric Rudd
rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com