On 2016-04-15, Tim Wescott wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit --]
> I posted this paper to my website yesterday: > http://wescottdesign.com/articles/pid/pidWithoutAPhd.pdf. > A reader contacted me asking why I left out the equals signs in the > equations. It turned out that the equals signs did not render correctly > in his web reader plug-in, but did render correctly in the related > stand-alone reader. Here's what he said: > "Hi, > I'm attaching bmps of screenshots to this message, showing the bad > rendering. This is through the Foxit add-on to the Firefox browser. > I just downloaded the file, rather than looking at it in the browser, > and when the file is opened by Foxit, the equals signs show up just > fine." > This isn't a problem with Lyx per se., but (likely) some interaction > between tex2pdf, the Foxit software, and possibly the guy's screen > resolution. But -- you guys are smart, so I'm asking you if you (A) > know what's going on, and (B) have any suggestions for how I could work > around this for Foxit users without making my pdf files too ugly for > normal humans to want to read. I assume you are speaking about LyX-produced PDF output, right? My guess is, that the user used a resolution/magnification so small, that the thickness of the lines in = was rounded to 0 by the software. There is no easy cure, some suggestions: * whenever details are missing, magnify the document and see whether they turn up. * use a font with bolder symbols (e.g. newtxmath) * use a larger font size (Document>Settings>Fonts>Base Size) Günter
