Re: Using -Tpdf rather than -Tps and then ps2pdf

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2023-06-12T23:45:36+0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > But, the output direct to PDF from 'groff' does not match that of
> > going to Postscript and then converting that to PDF using 'ps2pdf'.
> 
> The main difference that I can see is that in p8ps.pdf the symbol
> font has been scaled to match the x-height of the text font.
> In p8pdf.pdf the Greek letters (alpha, beta, pi) are too large,
> resulting in an unpleasant appearance of equations containing
> these symbols.

You just solved a year-old mystery for me--thank you!

I had observed this myself when doing my little "retypesetting
mathematics" project but elected not to tackle it until after the 1.23.0
release.

See attachment.

Regards,
Branden

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