Thank you all for your replies! I will try ivritex's mailing list; it's quite weird, because I do have culmus fonts installed - the problem is with ivritex, still?
Anyway, it is comfoting that you can see both in a good quality. Yes, I am not using adobe reader (since it is not free software); I am using just simple PDF viewer (actually, Evince 0.8.1) - for the experiment, I have tried a different PDF viewer - KGhostView 0.2.0 - and it looks much better - but this software is awfully slow and have problems with zoomings. So, thanks again - now I figure out what the problem is - and these are the still "open" questions: a. I have culmus fonts installed - is it not sufficient for tex2pdf to use them? What should I ask ivritex? b. Can one of you recommend a good PDF viewer, which is a free software, for linux? Thanks again, Peleg. On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 21:31 +0200, Dov Feldstern wrote: > Peleg Michaeli wrote: > > Hey... > > > > First of all - thanks for your reply. > > > > Before I do all of your suggested tests (which I will do) I just have to > > say: it seems like the pdf you've sent me has fuzzy Hebrew as well! > > Perhaps the problem is with the pdf *viewer* that you're using? Some > files I use look horrible in gv, but they're fine using acroread... > > > > > Well - as I understand, PDF should embed the fonts inside it, so it's > > not impossible that we see the documents in two computers in two > > different ways; so for the example, I will add here links to two > > documents that I have generated using LyX, one while I had Windows, and > > one in my ubuntu. The two documents are generated from the same source > > file, so you'll probably see the huge differences. > > > > The link to the "windows" generated PDF is here: > > - http://www.freeall.org/peleg/math/TOP_MMN16-C-windows.pdf > > And the link the the "ubuntu" generated PDF is here: > > - http://www.freeall.org/peleg/math/TOP_MMN16-C-ubuntu.pdf > > > > See the difference? > > Hmmm, not really :( ... both files look OK to me. Of course they use > different fonts --- on Windows you're probably using the culmus fonts, > and on ubuntu the fonts that come with ivritex (which are not yet culmus > fonts, and not as nice) --- but in terms of "quality" I don't see a > difference... Regarding the use of culmus fonts on linux, there has been > some work in that direction going on in ivritex, I strongly urge you to > ping the mailing list there to see if there's any progress with this > (and I don't really know the details, they may be able to confirm > whether or not what I'm saying is correct). > > > > > Here is the source for BOTH of the PDFs: > > - http://www.freeall.org/peleg/math/TOP_MMN16.lyx > > > > Thanks again, > > hopefully I will do the rest of the tests some other time. > > > > Peleg.
