Kuhlman's tutorials pretty good

[Dave Reed]

On Friday 16 April 2004 14:55, Dave Kuhlman wrote:
> gabor wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > 
> > hmmm..could you also put on the web the latex sources? (or a
> > ps/pdf version?)...
> > 
> > or if it is already there, i can't find it :(
> 
> The TeX/LaTeX sources for these tutorials and postscript (.ps)
> and PDF files are in:
> 
>     http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/python_x01_training.zip
> 
> A few comments:
> 
> I was able, just now, to generate ps and pdf files.  Thanks for
> asking this question.  You motivated me to try to generate them.  I
> did not know that I could do that.
> 
> The fonts in the ps files are not so good, and the fonts in the pdf
> files are terrible.  Maybe they will appear better on your system.
> If you look at them, please let me know.

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I've always had luck with:

dvips -Ppdf file.dvi -o
ps2pdf file.ps

I believe the -Ppdf embeds the fonts in the PostScript file and then
ps2pdf uses those giving better results.

Dave