Mark A. Bell wrote: > 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.
Its most likely caused by having type3 fonts (bitmapped ones) in your document. They can be quite good in resolution even 1200 dpi and Acrobat 5.0 and below will rebder then shithouse. It is a problem with Acrobat which has now eventually be fixed in Acroreader 6.0. Get your work to upgrade their Acroreader to 6.0 Look at the Tex User Group FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes Search for Acrobat things and you find this \ldots http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-type3 i.e. its actually not something that you have done wrong. > 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? The fact that it prints OK but renders poorly on screen is the classic sign that you have type3 fonts in your document which acroshit renders badly. Open Acroread and under File/Document Properties it will list your fonts. I bet they are "type3". > 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. You shouldnt need more fonts. I am still myself working out how to convert my setup to use Type1 fonts and thats prob the best way to go as then Acroreader on Windows will render it OK. Fonts in TeX are hard I think. -- Mike Lake Uni of Technol., Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER ======================================================================== This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. ======================================================================== -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
