This package provides a small package that makes LaTeX default to standard PostScript fonts. It is basically a merger of the times
and the (obsolete) mathptm
packages from the psnfss
suite. You must have installed standard LaTeX and the psnfss
PostScript fonts to use this package. The main novel feature is that the pslatex
package tries to compensate for the visual differences between the Adobe fonts by scaling Helvetica by 90%, and condensing Courier (i.e. scaling horizontally) by 85%. The package is supplied with a (unix) shell file for a pslatex
command that allows standard LaTeX documents to be processed, without needing to edit the file. Note that current psnfss
uses a different technique for scaling Helvetica, and treats Courier as a lost cause (there are better free fixed-width available now, than there were when pslatex
was designed). As a result, pslatex
is widely considered obsolete.