Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-20 Thread Rainer M Krug
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Curtis Osterhoudt schrieb: Simple solution - use other pdf readers. Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows Daniel Hi, Daniel, I'm quite happy with Foxit's free .pdf viewer (www.foxitsoftware.com), though I don't know how well it handles

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-20 Thread Rainer M Krug
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Curtis Osterhoudt schrieb: Simple solution - use other pdf readers. Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows Daniel Hi, Daniel, I'm quite happy with Foxit's free .pdf viewer (www.foxitsoftware.com), though I don't know how well it handles

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-20 Thread Rainer M Krug
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Curtis Osterhoudt schrieb: > > Simple solution - use other pdf readers. > > Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows > Daniel Hi, Daniel, I'm quite happy with Foxit's free .pdf viewer (www.foxitsoftware.com), though I don't know how well it

RE: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-19 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Yes. Acrobat is a lousy pdf reader - it don't handle bitmap fonts very well. Simple solution - use other pdf readers. Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows, the only platform on which this problem appears? I am really looking for one and so far I am only aware of

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Curtis Osterhoudt schrieb: Simple solution - use other pdf readers. Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows Daniel Hi, Daniel, I'm quite happy with Foxit's free .pdf viewer (www.foxitsoftware.com), though I don't know how well it handles bitmapped fonts. They

RE: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-19 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Yes. Acrobat is a lousy pdf reader - it don't handle bitmap fonts very well. Simple solution - use other pdf readers. Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows, the only platform on which this problem appears? I am really looking for one and so far I am only aware of

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Curtis Osterhoudt schrieb: Simple solution - use other pdf readers. Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows Daniel Hi, Daniel, I'm quite happy with Foxit's free .pdf viewer (www.foxitsoftware.com), though I don't know how well it handles bitmapped fonts. They

RE: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-19 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
> > Yes. Acrobat is a lousy pdf reader - it don't handle bitmap fonts very> > > > well.> > Simple solution - use other pdf readers.> > Oh, you can recommend > > good alternatives for Windows, the only> platform on which this problem > > appears? I am really looking for one> and so far I am

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Curtis Osterhoudt schrieb: > > Simple solution - use other pdf readers. > > Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows > Daniel Hi, Daniel, I'm quite happy with Foxit's free .pdf viewer (www.foxitsoftware.com), though I don't know how well it handles bitmapped fonts.

pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi I created some pdfs via pdflatex and ps2pdf under Linux and they look horrible under windows (Acrobat 5). They look fine under Linux (checked with acroread and kpdf) but under windows they look like low quality scans - even after zooming in. Any ideas what is causing this? Rainer --

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Rainer M Krug
Someone told me it might be because the reader is Acrobat 5 - any ideas on what I can do so that it shows properly in Adobe Reader 5 as well as it is out of my control which version is used? (I use scalable fonts) Rainer Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi I created some pdfs via pdflatex and ps2pdf

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Rainer == Rainer M Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rainer Someone told me it might be because the reader is Acrobat 5 - Rainer any ideas on what I can do so that it shows properly in Adobe Rainer Reader 5 as well as it is out of my control which version is Rainer used? (I use scalable fonts) Are

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/18/06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rainer == Rainer M Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rainer Someone told me it might be because the reader is Acrobat 5 - Rainer any ideas on what I can do so that it shows properly in Adobe Rainer Reader 5 as well as it is out of my

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi I created some pdfs via pdflatex and ps2pdf under Linux and they look horrible under windows (Acrobat 5). They look fine under Linux (checked with acroread and kpdf) but under windows they look like low quality scans - even after zooming in. Any ideas what is

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Rainer M Krug
Paul Smith wrote: On 10/18/06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rainer == Rainer M Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rainer Someone told me it might be because the reader is Acrobat 5 - Rainer any ideas on what I can do so that it shows properly in Adobe Rainer Reader 5 as well as

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
2006/10/18, Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any ideas what is causing this? Yes. Acrobat is a lousy pdf reader - it don't handle bitmap fonts very well. Simple solution - use other pdf readers. Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows, the only platform on which this problem

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Daniel Lohmann wrote: 2006/10/18, Helge Hafting Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows, the only platform on which this problem appears? I am really looking for one and so far I am only aware of ghostview - which is even more lousy as PDF reader... I've used eXPert PDF Reader

pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi I created some pdfs via pdflatex and ps2pdf under Linux and they look horrible under windows (Acrobat 5). They look fine under Linux (checked with acroread and kpdf) but under windows they look like low quality scans - even after zooming in. Any ideas what is causing this? Rainer --

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Rainer M Krug
Someone told me it might be because the reader is Acrobat 5 - any ideas on what I can do so that it shows properly in Adobe Reader 5 as well as it is out of my control which version is used? (I use scalable fonts) Rainer Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi I created some pdfs via pdflatex and ps2pdf

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Rainer == Rainer M Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rainer Someone told me it might be because the reader is Acrobat 5 - Rainer any ideas on what I can do so that it shows properly in Adobe Rainer Reader 5 as well as it is out of my control which version is Rainer used? (I use scalable fonts) Are

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/18/06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rainer == Rainer M Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rainer Someone told me it might be because the reader is Acrobat 5 - Rainer any ideas on what I can do so that it shows properly in Adobe Rainer Reader 5 as well as it is out of my

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi I created some pdfs via pdflatex and ps2pdf under Linux and they look horrible under windows (Acrobat 5). They look fine under Linux (checked with acroread and kpdf) but under windows they look like low quality scans - even after zooming in. Any ideas what is

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Rainer M Krug
Paul Smith wrote: On 10/18/06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rainer == Rainer M Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rainer Someone told me it might be because the reader is Acrobat 5 - Rainer any ideas on what I can do so that it shows properly in Adobe Rainer Reader 5 as well as

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
2006/10/18, Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any ideas what is causing this? Yes. Acrobat is a lousy pdf reader - it don't handle bitmap fonts very well. Simple solution - use other pdf readers. Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows, the only platform on which this problem

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Daniel Lohmann wrote: 2006/10/18, Helge Hafting Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows, the only platform on which this problem appears? I am really looking for one and so far I am only aware of ghostview - which is even more lousy as PDF reader... I've used eXPert PDF Reader

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
2006/10/18, Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Any ideas what is causing this? Yes. Acrobat is a lousy pdf reader - it don't handle bitmap fonts very well. Simple solution - use other pdf readers. Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows, the only platform on which this problem

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Daniel Lohmann wrote: 2006/10/18, Helge Hafting Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows, the only platform on which this problem appears? I am really looking for one and so far I am only aware of ghostview - which is even more lousy as PDF reader... I've used eXPert PDF Reader

pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi I created some pdfs via pdflatex and ps2pdf under Linux and they look horrible under windows (Acrobat 5). They look fine under Linux (checked with acroread and kpdf) but under windows they look like low quality scans - even after zooming in. Any ideas what is causing this? Rainer --

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Rainer M Krug
Someone told me it might be because the reader is Acrobat 5 - any ideas on what I can do so that it shows properly in Adobe Reader 5 as well as it is out of my control which version is used? (I use scalable fonts) Rainer Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi I created some pdfs via pdflatex and ps2pdf

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Rainer" == Rainer M Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rainer> Someone told me it might be because the reader is Acrobat 5 - Rainer> any ideas on what I can do so that it shows properly in Adobe Rainer> Reader 5 as well as it is out of my control which version is Rainer> used? (I use

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/18/06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Rainer" == Rainer M Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rainer> Someone told me it might be because the reader is Acrobat 5 - Rainer> any ideas on what I can do so that it shows properly in Adobe Rainer> Reader 5 as well as it is

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi I created some pdfs via pdflatex and ps2pdf under Linux and they look horrible under windows (Acrobat 5). They look fine under Linux (checked with acroread and kpdf) but under windows they look like low quality scans - even after zooming in. Any ideas what is

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Rainer M Krug
Paul Smith wrote: On 10/18/06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Rainer" == Rainer M Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rainer> Someone told me it might be because the reader is Acrobat 5 - Rainer> any ideas on what I can do so that it shows properly in Adobe Rainer> Reader