On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Todd Gruhn's account wrote:

> Jeremy Reed said he does it all the time, and views the PDF with ghostscript.
> SO, I use ps2pdf to convert my ps to pdf. I then viewed it with gv using
> the following command:
> 
> gv cresume.pdf quit.ps
> 
> It worked! But this raises a new Q: Why does this file work with gs but not
> xpdf? Do I need to specify xresources...?
> 

because of the font encodings.  did you see any error output of xpdf?
perhaps 

Error: This document uses Type 3 fonts - some text may not be correctly 
displayed

Solution is use embedded type 1 fonts.

-dan