Re: tetex in experimental and Type 1 fonts

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Grüezi, 

Patrick Pletscher <debian@galaxysoft.ch> wrote:

> Today I created a PDF document by running a LaTeX document through
> pdflatex. The fonts of the resulting document looked ugly in xpdf so I
> tested it in acroread and saw that the document used Type 3 fonts, until
> today the resulting PDF always used Type 1 fonts. I never had to select
> this manually.
>
> As I didn't find a bug report or a thread in the mailing lists I'd like
> now to ask whether this is a new "feature" and I have to get used to it,
> or this is a real bug. 

I think it is a bug.  It must be some change in the configuration -
previously, the Bluesky Type1 ComputerModern fonts were used if
possible.  I'll investigate it - but I'd appreciate very much if you'd
file a bug report so that we don't forget.

By the way, you know that as soon as you use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} to
be able to search for Umlauts (like in Chuchichäschtli...) in a pdf
file, you'll get Type3 fonts again, because the Bluesky fonts only exist
in OT1 encoding?  To get Type1 with T1, you either have to install the
CM-super package (not included in Debian), or simply use lmodern.sty (in
a separate Debian package) - the LatinModern fonts, however, are still
in development (but fairly stable).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer