Sebastian Guttenberg <[email protected]> writes:
> Well, it's one thing to optimize a file for the pdf-output and another
> that I am working usually with dvi and ps, but from time to time need
> to produce a pdf-version of it to somebody (who might use acroread on
> windows). It cannot be that the standard output (without changing any
> settings) produces such a bad quality?

The reason for that is that the TeX fonts exist in postscript form in
OT1 (the old encoding without accents) but not in T1 (the better new
one). This means that _by_default_ documents using T1 encoding use
bitmap fonts (which look ugly with acroread, in particular, since Adobe
wants us to buy fonts :).

The ways out of this situation are:
* use "Almost European" fonts, which are virtual fonts built from the
Ot1 fonts mimicking new fonts
* Use "Latin Modern" fonts, which are new scalable fonts with the same
design as classical TeX fonts
* use some other free postscript font. The font can be selected in
Document Settings.
* switch to development version, use xetex, and be able to select any
font on your system (OK, I would not advise it, but it is to get an idea
of what is coming).

JMarc

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