On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:21:15AM -0500, Roland Krause wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a long time LyX user and I am kind of in trouble. I am giving a
> presentation on Friday and I kinda bet on that I can do it with LyX/pstricks
> just as good as with Powerpoint. The presentation has lots and lots of formulas
> and some screenshots too.
>
> I am using foiltex with a modified layout file that lets me put graded
> background behind the slides. Then I convert to pdf with ps2pdf because I can
> not get pdflatex to work with pstricks.
> My problem is of course the fonts... They just look crappy on the projector....
> especially the math fonts.
> So what can I do, I know there was a lengthy discussion on Type1 fonts here
> lately but I dont understand the whole issue....
> Can anyone clue me in on this or give me pointer where to find
> __comprehensive__ (Remember I am under time pressure big time :-) information?
First, if you use ps2pdf, you should use gs version 6.0 (not 5.x)
Second, if you use the EC fonts (T1 font encoding),
you should add \usepackage{ae,aecompl} to the preamble.
> PS: If anybody is interested in how to use these graded backgrounds in
> combination with foiltex and the foils layout I'll be happy to write a
> mini-howto and summarize the process of making presentations for scientific
> purposes with LyX after this is over.
>
BTW, it may be better to use pdflatex directly for doing presentations.
Look for example at the pdfslide package or the PPower4 post-processor.
