Jonathan Matthews <jaycee@jaycee.uklinux.net> writes:
> I'm trying to get a "nice" looking PDF from a latex document. I'm using
> the normal article class, with no other packages loaded. I'm using a
> couple of symbols that I wouldn't expect to find on a keyboard (namely
> \times and \equiv) but apart from that I don't think I'm using anything
> unusual.
>
> I'm using pdflatex to output the PDF, and I'm aiming for print quality,
> not screen quality, if they're not related.
>
> I'm seeing a variety of problems in the .pdf output, but latex by itself
> doesn't exhibit any of them when I create DVI output.
...
> I'm running up-to-date sid with tetex-{base,bin,extra} installed. No
> manual configuration's been done beyond apt-get's efforts.
So am I, and I can't reproduce any of your problems. Maybe a sample
of the LaTeX source would help. This file should exhibit most of the
problems you mentioned, but looks fine to me (pdflatex; xpdf):
Attachment:
binM0Fdn_T18p.bin
Description: application/latex
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