Re: ugly fonts with Acrobat Reader and XPdf (pdflatex)
Quoting Lorenzo Bettini <bettini@dsi.unifi.it>:
> Hi
>
> It's the first time I use these programs in Debian (I'm using them in
> Mandrake and Gentoo and never had problems): the problem is that the
> fonts look really bad both in xpdf and (even worse) in acrobat reader...
>
This is because they are using Type 3 (bitmap fonts, which are very ugly)
as opposed to Type 1 fonts.
> it looks like pdflatex is to blame: the new files I generate with
> pdflatex in this machine are ugly, while the old ones look fine...
>
The blame rests with your font settings. What fonts and font-related
packages have you installed on your system?
-Roberto
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Roberto Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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