On 11/25/05, Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> How do you generate your pdf's from lyx?
> If you have sufficient software installed, there is three ways:
> 1. pdf [uses latex,dvips,ps2pdf]
>    Disadvantage: the slowest way
>    Advantage:    uses exactly the same mechanism as when printing. If
>                  printing works, this works - and vice versa.
>
> 2. pdf (dvipdfm)  [uses latex,dvipdfm]
>    Disadvantage: sometimes produce an invalid pdf, that happened to me.
>                  This one was nasty - it worked in _my_ acrobat on
>                  linux, but failed in the publisher's acrobat on windows.
>                  Good it wasn't a pdf for wide distribution.
>    Advantage:    somewhat faster than the above way
>
> 3. pdf (pdflatex) [uses pdflatex]
>    Advantage:    Lightning fast compared to the other two - a pdf in one
> step!
>    Disadvantage: Don't necessarily support graphichs of the .eps type,
>                  but they can be converted to pdf and will then work.
>
>
> Of course the problem could be something else.  Others have pointed out
> that using type3 fonts isn�'t the way to make a good pdf, but such
> a pdf should still be valid.  Could be a broken program, or
> possibly a bad font.  Or even broken acrobat.
>
> To look for the problem:
> Load the file into acrobat.  Use file->document properties->fonts
> to find what type 3 fonts you have.  Hopefully there are few, perhaps
> a font embedded in a figure?
>

Interesting, I was using the first method you outlined above.  When I tried
#3, it worked perfectly.

Also, when I checked the Document Properties, it showed only type 1 fonts.

Thanks to all who helped me on and off the list.


Andrew

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