On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Bob Williams wrote:
> > the doc looks great with my installed fonts under Linux. But when
> > I view it under a standard installation of Adobe Acrobat viewer ...
> I meant a standard ** Windows ** installation...
> I know this has something to do with using fixed fonts and think I need to
> do something to force pdflatex to use scaleable fonts. Where do I do
> that? In the tex file?
My TeX is rusty, but let me see if I can explain it here:
TeX or LaTeX will convert you TeX-marked-up document "doc.tex"
to a dvi file "doc.dvi", using as measurements the TeX font
metric (*.tfm) information associated with the fonts that
you selected in your "doc.tex" file. The dvi-driver converts
"doc.dvi" to some kind of printer format, in your case, to pdf
format. The dvi2pdf coverter (pdflatex?), if it does not find
the correct fonts that you specified in the "doc.tex" document,
will make reasonable font substitutions based on font metrics,
and sometimes, the substitutions don't look good.
So I think the solution is to provide the original TeX on Linux
with the font and font-metric files of the "true-type" or "adobe"
fonts that Acrobat loves to use under Windows.
I do not know how to do this, though.
All talk and no substance :(
PMana
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