Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
David P James wrote: >Gary Turner wrote: > [...] >> [la]tex sample >> dvips -Ppdf sample >> ps2pdf sample.ps >> >> This should yield a pdf file that Acroread can render nicely. >> > >Really? It usually comes out looking pretty awful if you ask me when >looked at with Acroread. I've had much mo

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:13:33PM -0500, David P James wrote: > Gary Turner wrote: > > >It is interesting to note that gv and xpdf render Type3 fonts very > >nicely while Acroread looks like crap. Regardless of how they look on > >screen, printed docs will look fine. > > > >See /usr/share/doc/te

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread David P James
Gary Turner wrote: It is interesting to note that gv and xpdf render Type3 fonts very nicely while Acroread looks like crap. Regardless of how they look on screen, printed docs will look fine. See /usr/share/doc/texmf/tetex/TETEXDOC.pdf.gz There are a few words about this. Basically, Acrorea

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Dienstag, 11. Februar 2003 12:53 schrieb Gary Turner: > It is interesting to note that gv and xpdf render Type3 fonts very > nicely while Acroread looks like crap.  Regardless of how they look on > screen, printed docs will look fine. This is true, but I need it mainly for screen presentations.

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Sorry for the noise, it turns out that I must not use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} works now... joerg > If I run pdflatex on a document, the "normal" font is shown very fuzzy > (Yes, various mails in the archives talk about bitmap fonts, but pdflatex > normally should use the vector fonts, not?), whi

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
Joerg Johannes wrote: >For some time I am struggling with pdflatex. Today's update of tetex resolved >the major problem I had (Acroread could not process the pdf files), but now >it is getting weird. >If I run pdflatex on a document, the "normal" font is shown very fuzzy (Yes, >various mails i

Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody For some time I am struggling with pdflatex. Today's update of tetex resolved the major problem I had (Acroread could not process the pdf files), but now it is getting weird. If I run pdflatex on a document, the "normal" font is shown very fuzzy (Yes, various mails in the archives