Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 06:21:11PM +0200, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
Dear Rachel,
I've had a similar problem. What I have done is force lyx (latex) to use Type I
fonts. To do this, I have in the preamble:
\usepackage{ae}
\usepackage{aecompl}
and prevent Lyx from using the default encoiding "T1" by changing the
lyxrc file in ~/.lyx, as follows:
#\font_encoding "T1" - this line is commented
\font_encoding default - this I have added
You only need to use one of the above (i.e., the 'ae' package is only needed
when you use the T1 font encoding).
It should also be mentioned that if you use ps2pdf to create the pdf, you
need to use ghostscript version = 6.0, and put the following in ~/.dvipsrc
p+ psfonts.cmz
p+ psfonts.amz
PS: Shouldn't this be in the FAQ?
Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 06:21:11PM +0200, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
Dear Rachel,
I've had a similar problem. What I have done is force lyx (latex) to use Type I
fonts. To do this, I have in the preamble:
\usepackage{ae}
\usepackage{aecompl}
and prevent Lyx from using the default encoiding "T1" by changing the
lyxrc file in ~/.lyx, as follows:
#\font_encoding "T1" - this line is commented
\font_encoding default - this I have added
You only need to use one of the above (i.e., the 'ae' package is only needed
when you use the T1 font encoding).
It should also be mentioned that if you use ps2pdf to create the pdf, you
need to use ghostscript version = 6.0, and put the following in ~/.dvipsrc
p+ psfonts.cmz
p+ psfonts.amz
PS: Shouldn't this be in the FAQ?
Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 06:21:11PM +0200, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> Dear Rachel,
>
> I've had a similar problem. What I have done is force lyx (latex) to use Type I
> fonts. To do this, I have in the preamble:
>
> \usepackage{ae}
> \usepackage{aecompl}
>
> and prevent Lyx from using the default encoiding "T1" by changing the
> lyxrc file in ~/.lyx, as follows:
> #\font_encoding "T1" <- this line is commented
> \font_encoding default <- this I have added
You only need to use one of the above (i.e., the 'ae' package is only needed
when you use the T1 font encoding).
It should also be mentioned that if you use ps2pdf to create the pdf, you
need to use ghostscript version >= 6.0, and put the following in ~/.dvipsrc
p+ psfonts.cmz
p+ psfonts.amz
PS: Shouldn't this be in the FAQ?
Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
Paul Borgermans wrote:
Rachel,
I had the same problem. There are two ways that work for me by changing
settings in LyX (versions 1.1.4x, 1.1.5, 1.1.6cvs, probably earlier
versions too):
1) put
\usepackage{pslatex}
in the latex preamble (see Layout- LaTeX preamble)
Thanks, that works brilliantly.
or
2)
select "psfonts" in Layout - Document | fonts
No "psfonts" option there on mine (Lyx 1.1.4fix1 as supplied with SuSE 6.4);
someone else suggested putting Times there and that worked, but not if I
start using fonts other than Times, so the \usepackage{pslatex} option seems
the better one generally.
I'm not a mathematician so the problems with math formatting aren't
important to me. :-)
--
Rachel
Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
Paul Borgermans wrote:
Rachel,
I had the same problem. There are two ways that work for me by changing
settings in LyX (versions 1.1.4x, 1.1.5, 1.1.6cvs, probably earlier
versions too):
1) put
\usepackage{pslatex}
in the latex preamble (see Layout- LaTeX preamble)
Thanks, that works brilliantly.
or
2)
select "psfonts" in Layout - Document | fonts
No "psfonts" option there on mine (Lyx 1.1.4fix1 as supplied with SuSE 6.4);
someone else suggested putting Times there and that worked, but not if I
start using fonts other than Times, so the \usepackage{pslatex} option seems
the better one generally.
I'm not a mathematician so the problems with math formatting aren't
important to me. :-)
--
Rachel
Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
Paul Borgermans wrote:
>
> Rachel,
>
> I had the same problem. There are two ways that work for me by changing
> settings in LyX (versions 1.1.4x, 1.1.5, 1.1.6cvs, probably earlier
> versions too):
>
>
> 1) put
>
> \usepackage{pslatex}
>
> in the latex preamble (see Layout-> LaTeX preamble)
Thanks, that works brilliantly.
> or
>
> 2)
>
> select "psfonts" in Layout -> Document | fonts
No "psfonts" option there on mine (Lyx 1.1.4fix1 as supplied with SuSE 6.4);
someone else suggested putting Times there and that worked, but not if I
start using fonts other than Times, so the \usepackage{pslatex} option seems
the better one generally.
I'm not a mathematician so the problems with math formatting aren't
important to me. :-)
--
Rachel
Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
Rachel,
I had the same problem. There are two ways that work for me by changing
settings in LyX (versions 1.1.4x, 1.1.5, 1.1.6cvs, probably earlier
versions too):
1) put
\usepackage{pslatex}
in the latex preamble (see Layout- LaTeX preamble)
or
2)
select "psfonts" in Layout - Document | fonts
After this, ps2pdf on a postscript output should be better when viewing
with Acrobat Reader, except formula's for which I did not find a
solution...yet
Do expect that the fonts are not equal with these settings (most
pronounced with helvetica ps fonts, which differ substantially from the
LateX equivalent)
Best regards
Paul
Rachel Greenham wrote:
I want to produce my finished Lyx document as PDF, and this looks generally
straightforward. The resulting PDFs, however, while they print just fine,
look terrible on screen in acroread, which matters as it will be "published"
on an internal website and so is most likely to be seen using the acrobat
plugin in a browser. I haven't done anything to specify any unusual fonts,
so I would have thought it would use the standard set (Times, Helvetica,
Courier) etc., and so should scale properly. It's like it's having to load a
poorly-written font rather than use a decent one with hints etc. all set up
properly.
ISTR someone else having this problem but don't recall seeing an answer. I
get the same results if I export as Tex and convert to PDF using pdflatex,
or if I go through dvi, or if I export as Postscript and use ps2pdf.
Thanks in advance...
--
Rachel
Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
Rachel,
I had the same problem. There are two ways that work for me by changing
settings in LyX (versions 1.1.4x, 1.1.5, 1.1.6cvs, probably earlier
versions too):
1) put
\usepackage{pslatex}
in the latex preamble (see Layout- LaTeX preamble)
or
2)
select "psfonts" in Layout - Document | fonts
After this, ps2pdf on a postscript output should be better when viewing
with Acrobat Reader, except formula's for which I did not find a
solution...yet
Do expect that the fonts are not equal with these settings (most
pronounced with helvetica ps fonts, which differ substantially from the
LateX equivalent)
Best regards
Paul
Rachel Greenham wrote:
I want to produce my finished Lyx document as PDF, and this looks generally
straightforward. The resulting PDFs, however, while they print just fine,
look terrible on screen in acroread, which matters as it will be "published"
on an internal website and so is most likely to be seen using the acrobat
plugin in a browser. I haven't done anything to specify any unusual fonts,
so I would have thought it would use the standard set (Times, Helvetica,
Courier) etc., and so should scale properly. It's like it's having to load a
poorly-written font rather than use a decent one with hints etc. all set up
properly.
ISTR someone else having this problem but don't recall seeing an answer. I
get the same results if I export as Tex and convert to PDF using pdflatex,
or if I go through dvi, or if I export as Postscript and use ps2pdf.
Thanks in advance...
--
Rachel
Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
Rachel,
I had the same problem. There are two ways that work for me by changing
settings in LyX (versions 1.1.4x, 1.1.5, 1.1.6cvs, probably earlier
versions too):
1) put
\usepackage{pslatex}
in the latex preamble (see Layout-> LaTeX preamble)
or
2)
select "psfonts" in Layout -> Document | fonts
After this, ps2pdf on a postscript output should be better when viewing
with Acrobat Reader, except formula's for which I did not find a
solution...yet
Do expect that the fonts are not equal with these settings (most
pronounced with helvetica ps fonts, which differ substantially from the
LateX equivalent)
Best regards
Paul
Rachel Greenham wrote:
>
> I want to produce my finished Lyx document as PDF, and this looks generally
> straightforward. The resulting PDFs, however, while they print just fine,
> look terrible on screen in acroread, which matters as it will be "published"
> on an internal website and so is most likely to be seen using the acrobat
> plugin in a browser. I haven't done anything to specify any unusual fonts,
> so I would have thought it would use the standard set (Times, Helvetica,
> Courier) etc., and so should scale properly. It's like it's having to load a
> poorly-written font rather than use a decent one with hints etc. all set up
> properly.
>
> ISTR someone else having this problem but don't recall seeing an answer. I
> get the same results if I export as Tex and convert to PDF using pdflatex,
> or if I go through dvi, or if I export as Postscript and use ps2pdf.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> --
> Rachel
