Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?
At 01:12 AM 12/7/99 +0100, you wrote:
>* Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@apocalypse.org> writes:
>
>> At 08:05 PM 12/6/99 +0100, Colin Marquardt wrote:
>>> * Eric G Miller <egm2@jps.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> If you don't need them to be CMR fonts (which I don't think Acrobat can
>>>> display well), try '\usepackage{times}'. That'll give you Postscript 1
>>>> fonts. Since AcroReader only understands 11 fonts, *only* Times Roman,
>>>> Helvetica, Courier [New?], and Zapf Dingbats will render well on the
>>>> display (though bitmap fonts print fine in my experience). The only
>>>
>>> That assumes one is going the ps2pdf route (which uses gs).
>>> Hopefully, gs 6.0 will remove that limitation, but that is not
>>> entirely clear. (Just to state that this is not a limitation of the
>>> PDF format...) pdftex (and, AFAIK, dvipdfm) work fine with
>>> non-standard fonts.
>
>> Ah. I missed part of this conversation. So if I use Slink gs then I am
>> doomed to lousy PDF files with anything but Times and friends? Now I
>> understand.....
>
>Argh, I missed my own statement in the post I just sent. Going to bed
>now :-)
No biggie. I missed this one too.
Thanks, everybody! I converted my EPS graphic to PDF and now pdfLaTeX works
just fine.
Here's hoping gs 6.0 fixes some font issues...
Ron
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