* Ron Hale-Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 08:05 PM 12/6/99 +0100, Colin Marquardt wrote: >> * Eric G Miller <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> If you don't need them to be CMR fonts (which I don't think Acrobat can >>> display well), try '\usepackage{times}'. That'll give you Postscript 1 >>> fonts. Since AcroReader only understands 11 fonts, *only* Times Roman, >>> Helvetica, Courier [New?], and Zapf Dingbats will render well on the >>> display (though bitmap fonts print fine in my experience). The only >> >> That assumes one is going the ps2pdf route (which uses gs). >> Hopefully, gs 6.0 will remove that limitation, but that is not >> entirely clear. (Just to state that this is not a limitation of the >> PDF format...) pdftex (and, AFAIK, dvipdfm) work fine with >> non-standard fonts.
> Ah. I missed part of this conversation. So if I use Slink gs then I am > doomed to lousy PDF files with anything but Times and friends? Now I > understand..... Argh, I missed my own statement in the post I just sent. Going to bed now :-) -- Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
