Thanks to everyone who responded to my query about nasty fonts in Acrobat. Looking at the File-Properties in Windows Acrobat 5 did indeed show that my document was using a Type 3 font.
Being a beginner at LaTeX, I produced my document using LyX (on top of Debian Unstable). I just exported the file as a PDF. The 'default' font that Lyx uses is apparently a Type 3 font. Pdffonts reveals: name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------- ------------ --- --- --- --------- [none] Type 3 no no no 9 0 You can change the LyX font in the 'Document Settings' dialogue (Layout -> Document). As suggested, I tried again using 'Times' and the file came up perfectly in Acrobat. The Acrobat 'Document Information' revealed that it was using Type 1 Times font this time. Pdffonts shows: name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------- ------------ --- --- --- --------- AZOWND+Times-Roman Type 1C yes yes no 10 0 I also wrote a quick test file using Emacs without specifying any fonts or packages. I ran LaTeX and dvipdf, and tried out the file in Acrobat. It came out perfectly with Times Type 1 fonts. Pdffonts shows: name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------- ------------ --- --- --- --------- VCWIIB+CMR17 Type 1C yes yes no 10 0 XACQQL+CMR12~f Type 1C yes yes no 16 0 GGLQBJ+CMR12 Type 1C yes yes no 13 0 I presume that these are the 'Computer Modern' fonts mentioned in the TeX FAQ [http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fuzzy-type3] and that they are infact the default for my Debian TeTeX installation. Thanks to everyone who responded. Now I have a slightly better understanding of LyX, LaTeX, fonts, PDFs, Acrobat, and printing. Slightly mystifying, but it still beats trying to get Word to do what I want! ===== 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
