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