Re: PDfs from Linux have nasty fonts

2005-12-07 Thread Helge Hafting
Søren O'Neill wrote: Hi John, I've found that many pdfs created in LyX on my Linux box look jagged and are hard to read on-screen on windows boxes, but look just fine when printed. I suspect this is because the windows box doesnt have the fonts used, but the printer does. Nope. The fon

Re: Fwd: PDfs from Linux have nasty fonts

2005-12-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: > It really is a latex default fonts issue, see: > http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/PDF > > for the question "The fonts are bad in the exported PDF, what can I do?" it has _nothing_ to do with LaTeX, it is a problem of acroread Herbert

Re: Fwd: PDfs from Linux have nasty fonts

2005-12-07 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
On 12/7/05, John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wouldn't it make sense to make this the default setting in the standard > Lyx templates? > > > The best solution is to use the /cm-super/ or /latin modern > > (lm)/-fonts. (The LaTeX community plans to replace /ec/ by /lm/.) > > Every LaTeX distribu

Re: Fwd: PDfs from Linux have nasty fonts

2005-12-07 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Wed 07 Dec 2005 10:12:24 GMT, [Andres Becerra Sandoval] wrote : \_ On 12/7/05, John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, I use the Lyx pdflatex option to produce a PDF of my thesis-in-progress. When I view the PDF in Linux (I'm using standard FC4 packages, evince 4.0.0 is th

Fwd: PDfs from Linux have nasty fonts

2005-12-07 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
It really is a latex default fonts issue, see: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/PDF for the question "The fonts are bad in the exported PDF, what can I do?" -- Andres On 12/7/05, John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I use the Lyx pdflatex option to produce a PDF of my thesis

Re: PDfs from Linux have nasty fonts

2005-12-07 Thread Søren O'Neill
Hi John, I've found that many pdfs created in LyX on my Linux box look jagged and are hard to read on-screen on windows boxes, but look just fine when printed. I suspect this is because the windows box doesnt have the fonts used, but the printer does. As far as I understand though, the fonts

PDfs from Linux have nasty fonts

2005-12-07 Thread John Pye
Hi there, I use the Lyx pdflatex option to produce a PDF of my thesis-in-progress. When I view the PDF in Linux (I'm using standard FC4 packages, evince 4.0.0 is the PDF viewer) the characters in the (standard) font looks slightly bunched up. When I view the same PDF in Windows (Acrobat 4.0) the f