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Readable fonts for latex->dvips->ps2pdf

Anyone who translates a document with LaTeX, then converts it into a Postscript file using DVIPS and finally into a PDF file using PS2PDF will certainly have noticed that the fonts look pretty bad when viewed in Acrobat Reader (which is then rectified when printed out).

The problem is due to the embedded fonts that DVIPS generates in the Postscript code. The following lines in the ~/.dvipsrc file solve the problem permanently:

p +psfonts.cmz p +psfonts.amz