On 12/12/2010 05:13 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Saturday 11 December 2010 16:42:45 Venable wrote:
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Liviu Andronic<[email protected]>
wrote:
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<[email protected]>
wrote:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf
I see. Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or
anything else, actually.) I guess your TeX installation is missing the
scalable version of the Computer Modern fonts.
My guess is that you're using default fonts, and LyX in default
configuration will use bitmap fonts (long story). Try to change
Document> Settings> Fonts> Roman to Latin Modern or Palatino to get
vector fonts. But I don't know if this would help you with the
submission thingy.
This (bitmap as default) has always been puzzling to me. Even though
it's a small thing to correct, I've seen it be a barrier to adoption
by the less-technically-inclined. It seems like making a scalable font
the default would go a long way to making LyX "just work" out of the
box.
Of course, there is probably another side to the story.
I'll tell you one thing. Every time I tried Palatino, and I think Latin
Modern, they were thin, reedy, hard to read, especially on a computer screen.
By far the best looking font I've had that comes with LyX/TeTeX is Century
Schoolbook. I have no idea if that's bitmapped or scalable.
It's scalable.
