Hi all, speaking of fonts, I could add my experience with LaTeX (LyX) using MAC OS X and mostly Preview, that is the default PDF viewer on MAC computers. Actually I have never used lmodern because it didn't look well on the screen, as it has been said. After several trials I have found out that these fonts were best both for screen reading and for printing. In the Roman family: Charter, Fourier, Utopia. For the sans serif family I use berasans. All these fonts are available through a standard LaTeX distribution, or at least with a MAC OS X LaTeX distribution, so you don't need to install any additional font.
best wishes Pierfranco 2009/6/17 Olivier Ripoll <[email protected]> > Barankay, Iwan wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am using the latest Lyx and chose lmodern (Latin Modern) as my default >> font. When I generate pdfs the font looks just not sharp on screen. It >> prints fine but I want it to look sharp on screen. I hunted through the >> mailing list but could not find a solution (e.g. adding lmodern to the >> preamble does not help). When I use Times the pdfs look sharp on screen but >> I would really like to keep the Latin Modern or something that looks like >> it. >> Any suggestions? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Iwan >> >> > Hi, > > You may have problems to find a font looking sharp everywhere, because it's > also dependent on the viewer software (a lot) and some OS settings ('OS' in > the widest meaning): > On Windows XP, for example, pdf with latin modern sans-serif look sharp on > screen when using Adobe Reader 8 or GSview, but do not look so sharp with > Sumatra (0.9) or Foxit reader 3. There are two different display modes in > Foxit (both not-good-looking) and three in Adobe Reader. And there are yet > other alternatives... > I guess it may be more uniform on linux, as most readers share libraries > (poppler, etc.), but Foxit and Adobe Reader may still differ. > > Sorry for the somehow bad news, but I'm afraid there is no universal > answer. Good luck in your quest. > > Best regards, > > Olivier > >
