On Tuesday 04 December 2001 03:39 pm, Post, Mark K wrote: > You're right, the "times," "times new roman," "Helvetica," "courier," and > "courier new" look just fine online. But what's really strange is that > when the PDF file hits real paper, _all_ of the fonts look _great_. Even > if I tell the printer driver to send the fonts to the printer as bitmaps, > the text looks poor online. Again, on paper it looks perfect. Strange. > > Mark Post >
I agree with David's previous post on this thread, but here's an additional factor. For whatever reason, I have found that certain PDFs render better with the "acroread" tool from Adobe than with "xpdf". I don't know why, but perhaps the Adobe reader is smarter about font scaling. In any case, have you tried switching viewers on Linux? Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them [EMAIL PROTECTED] | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://www.4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999)
