Nirmal Govind wrote:
Am I alone in liking the lightness of Computer Modern? I often print out CM documents at 600dpi and I like the almost ethereal quality. In contrast, I recently PDFed a Word document in Times New Roman because I couldn't be bothered to do the reformatting necessary to import-export it through LyX (wv doesn't handle tables terribly well). I found the output really heavy and black (to be fair, times new Roman is a copy of Times Roman, which is a newspaper font, not a book font, so the requirements are different). Call me a Knuth fanatic, but CM is still the most aesthetically pleasing font I've ever seen (I'm not talking about fancy fonts here, though I wish Knuth had done a version of half-uncial).Or install the cm-super fonts, an (almost) complete type 1 replacement of the computer modern fonts: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/J�rgen.
I just did this (warning: cm-super package is a pretty big file ~ 65MB
in rpm format) and yes, the PDF output on screen is a lot better..
however, in print, they still are a bit too light just like the CM
fonts.. I wish they would release a 600DPI compatible version of these
fonts.
Robin
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