On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:04 am, 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
If the fonts you're using in Linux (LyX/LaTeX) are Type1 or PostScript, you
can copy them to the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat x.x\Resource\Font
directory. Not sure how you go about editing Acrobat's "Adobefnt.lst" file
automagically, but it's plain text and pretty easy to figure out.
The other option would be to purchase additional font packs from Adobe -
then copy the Adobe fonts (Type1/PostScript etc) to Linux (licensing siren
goes off somewhere in Adobe...)
The first option is what I've heard of people doing in the past wth Acrobat
Reader 4.x, not sure how you'd go with Acrobat 5.x - YMMV.
Cheers,
James
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