On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I've run LyX on RedHat, Fedora, and Ubuntu Linux at various times for > about 10 years. Until a year or so, the LaTeX distribution was TeTeX, > but recently I've converted over to TeXLive. > > Like many other LyX users, I've been wrestling with PDF output from > LyX for a long time. It used to be that the default fonts in LyX > would look very bad in PDF output. There were a number of workarounds > considered in this list. > > For a long time, I've followed Herbert V's the advice to use the > lmodern fonts in order to get nice PDF output. That still appears to > be the best advice in the LyX wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF > > In recent times, however, we've seen PDF output that looks really bad > in Adobe Acrobat reader 8 if a document uses the lmodern fonts. The > problem is that, at some levels of magnification, the fonts are > "uneven" on the screen. I uploaded a screenshot > > http://pj.freefaculty.org/latex/adobeUnevenFonts.pdf > I'm sorry. The screenshot is a png, not pdf, so I've renamed it:
http://pj.freefaculty.org/latex/adobeUnevenFonts.png > As far as I can tell, the output on paper is fine. It is not uneven > as it appears on the screen in acroread. If I change the document to > different fonts, I don't see that same kind of uneven output. > > Some of my students generate PDF output that is worse, some better. > Students who have Windows machines on which they primarily use Chinese > seem to have the worst trouble. In Linux, I can use other pdf > readers, but it appears Windows users are pretty much stuck with > Adobe. > > I've seen this problem recently on Ubuntu 8.04 with TeXLive and also > with Centos Linux 5.2 with TexLive. So that is making me thing it is > a TexLive problem. > > pj > > > -- > Paul E. Johnson > Professor, Political Science > 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 > University of Kansas > -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
