Re: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files

[Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de>]

Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 
> On 13 Jun 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> > This might be an acroread problem. I have noticed that acroread for
> > Linux (and all other unices) displays text very ugly, but the windows
> > one shows them fine. So if you have a .pdf created with pdflatex (as I
> > do very often, because I need to print them out at university, and there
> > is no LaTeX :-(( ), it might look ugly on a linux (sun,sgi,...)screen,
> > but print out perfectly, and look good on windows screens. Have you
> > tried to look at one of your documents on a windows PC?
> >
> > joerg
> >
> > "Lewis, James M." wrote:
> > >
> > > I am using pdflatex to make .pdf files of a document.  It prints just fine
> > > but looks bad when viewing with acroread.  Is there some trick to using
> > > different fonts to make the screen display look good?  I have tried
> > > using a couple of postscript fonts as well as the usual tex fonts (ccr).
> > > I have also tried ps2pdf with the same result.  No problems with xdvi
> > > but I have to send this doc to windows users...
> > >
> > > tia
> > > jim
> > >
> 
> I wonder if it has something to do with pdflatex. I've been making some
> latex slides using prosper and find that if I convert them to pdf using
> pdflatex the text doesn't appear when viewed with acroread. However, if
> I convert them via dvips and ps2pdf they do come out OK.
> 

Hmm. I never used prosper, but according to the docs, did you use
\documentclass[pdf,...]{prosper}
and ran pdflatex with this one?

joerg

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