try putting (this may not be correct but you'll get the idea)..

\usepackage{times}

at the top of your top level .ltx or .tex file..

Dave.

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Mark A. Bell wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is a someone-please-explain question rather than a how-to
> question. I've been experimenting with LyX and LaTeX for producing
> PDFs. I want to write documents at home and print them on the
> laser-printer at work. It's all Windows at the office.
>
> The PDFs that I produce look beautiful in GhostView at home, but
> when I open them in Acrobat for Windows, the fonts look hideous! I
> don't much care because the printed copy looks great - better
> than I could produce with Word, with so much less frustration.
>
> Why does this happen? Is it because the (expensive) laser-printer at
> work has the right fonts programmed into it, but regular Windows
> desktops don't?
>
> Should I worry that if I try to print on a different printer, I might
> get an incompatible font? Should I somehow install more fonts on my
> Linux box? I'm running Debian Unstable.
>
> Thanks,
>
> mark
>
> =====
> mark a. bell
> http://www.users.bigpond.com/m487396
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
> http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
>

-- 
David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person

-- 
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Reply via email to