On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 10:05:24PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015/12/26 19:11, Michael McConville wrote: > > Is there a reason why Firefox often has ugly typography in PDFs > > generated by LaTeX and the like? Most specifically, the t's are often > > very fat. > > > > Here's an example: > > > > http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~mmcconv1/dump/firefox-pdf.png > > > > IIRC, it's this way on some Linux distros too, so maybe it's > > unavoidable. Is there any way around it? > > > > I think this may happen if you have ghostscript-fonts installed.
To my eyes this screenshot looks more like a document that used the old bitmapped CM fonts rather than some PDF compatible ones. It may be possible that it's the firefox PDF viewer that picks them from you system, but more probalby it's at the PDF generation stage that the damage was done. Michael, is the original PDF document available somewhere to check that. Hint for (La)TeX document writers : use the lmodern package with pdftex/pdflatex. -- Matthieu Herrb
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