On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Can anyone give me a step by step tutorial on how to make my > Hebrew Latex-generated PDFs not look like crap on Acrobat > Reader and not have blocks instead of the many mathematical > signs?
Bitmap fonts look blurry when viewed in Acrobat because it performs a very poor job of antialiasing them (compared, say, to gv). For a sarcastic comment about this, see: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/outline-vs-bitmap-fonts.html The solution is to switch to outline fonts in PDF documents designed for on-screen viewing (or use a different PDF viewer, but you can't count on this if your documents are intended for wide distribution). LaTeX support for the Culmus outline fonts is in the pre-release version of IvriTeX-1.2, as Tzafrir has noted. Mathematical symbols appearing as blocks may be the result of a number of factors: - Acrobat is set to display characters under a certain size as gray blocks. This has nothing to do with the file, but rather with the configuration of Acrobat: under File|Preferences|Generals, adjust the option "Greek text below nn pixels". - You may be using bitmap cm fonts; this is the default for dvips in many distributions. There are many ways to change this, but the easiest is running dvips with the -Ppdf switch, in which case you normally also need the -G0 switch, as Orna has mentioned. - You may be using math fonts other than cm, and certain symbols that are not available show as boxes: for example, the popular mathptm and mathptmx packages lack some symbols such as \jmath. If you need these symbols and still want to have Times-like math fonts, you probably need to use the package mathtime which as a default relies on proprietary fonts; in a teTeX distro, see $TEXMF/doc/fonts/belleek/README for instructions on how to configure your system to use the free belleek fonts instead, which are a suitable replacement. -Ron. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
