On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Ron Artstein wrote:
> 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".
>
Thanks, this worked.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> - 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.
>
>
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