Re: How do I make quality PDFs from LaTeX?

[gaspard@zeus.UGent.be]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Jonathan Matthews wrote:

> I've tried googling lists.debian.org, but I don't get anything coming up
> that seems to address my problem.
>
> 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 hoping that someone can say "just install the 'foo' package, and
> you're set", but I'd be willing to do a fair bit of digging around if
> anyone thinks it'll help.  On the other hand, I hope that maybe there's
> another font package that needs installing?  Puuuurrrlease?

I never installed any fonts or so and your examples look good on my
system. Maybe header declarations? Try using \usepackage{amsmath}?

Other solutions:

dvipdf
dvipdfm
ps2pdf


Gaspard