I prefer latin modern ... ;-) and build my PDF's in general with VTeX/Free.
I tried out all the combinations again.. the ps2pdf output with cm-super looked marginally better than ps2pdf with lmodern when viewed on screen here.. pdflatex with lmodern does look great.. the reason I didn't use this method was cos I have eps figures in most of my files which don't convert to pdf (they're Illustrator generated eps figures and they somehow don't convert to pdf.. I'd mentioned this in a thread earlier)... and strangely, the pdf generated by Illustrator destroys the quality of the image... I guess I'll need to generate jpg files from now on and then use pdflatex.. (VTeX looks great but it's not available on powerpc linux)
