Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 06:21:11PM +0200, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > Dear Rachel, > > I've had a similar problem. What I have done is force lyx (latex) to use Type I > fonts. To do this, I have in the preamble: > > \usepackage{ae} > \usepackage{aecompl} > > and prevent Lyx from using the default encoiding "T1" by changing the > lyxrc file in ~/.lyx, as follows: > #\font_encoding "T1" <- this line is commented > \font_encoding default <- this I have added You only need to use one of the above (i.e., the 'ae' package is only needed when you use the T1 font encoding). It should also be mentioned that if you use ps2pdf to create the pdf, you need to use ghostscript version >= 6.0, and put the following in ~/.dvipsrc p+ psfonts.cmz p+ psfonts.amz PS: Shouldn't this be in the FAQ?
Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
Paul Borgermans wrote: > > Rachel, > > I had the same problem. There are two ways that work for me by changing > settings in LyX (versions 1.1.4x, 1.1.5, 1.1.6cvs, probably earlier > versions too): > > > 1) put > > \usepackage{pslatex} > > in the latex preamble (see Layout-> LaTeX preamble) Thanks, that works brilliantly. > or > > 2) > > select "psfonts" in Layout -> Document | fonts No "psfonts" option there on mine (Lyx 1.1.4fix1 as supplied with SuSE 6.4); someone else suggested putting Times there and that worked, but not if I start using fonts other than Times, so the \usepackage{pslatex} option seems the better one generally. I'm not a mathematician so the problems with math formatting aren't important to me. :-) -- Rachel
Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
Dear Rachel, I've had a similar problem. What I have done is force lyx (latex) to use Type I fonts. To do this, I have in the preamble: \usepackage{ae} \usepackage{aecompl} and prevent Lyx from using the default encoiding "T1" by changing the lyxrc file in ~/.lyx, as follows: #\font_encoding "T1" <- this line is commented \font_encoding default <- this I have added Ramon On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Rachel Greenham wrote: > I want to produce my finished Lyx document as PDF, and this looks generally > straightforward. The resulting PDFs, however, while they print just fine, > look terrible on screen in acroread, which matters as it will be "published" > on an internal website and so is most likely to be seen using the acrobat > plugin in a browser. I haven't done anything to specify any unusual fonts, > so I would have thought it would use the standard set (Times, Helvetica, > Courier) etc., and so should scale properly. It's like it's having to load a > poorly-written font rather than use a decent one with hints etc. all set up > properly. > > ISTR someone else having this problem but don't recall seeing an answer. I > get the same results if I export as Tex and convert to PDF using pdflatex, > or if I go through dvi, or if I export as Postscript and use ps2pdf. > > Thanks in advance... > > -- > Rachel -- Ramón Díaz-Uriarte Dept. Zoology and Statistics University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706-1381 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOTE: starting 15-July-2000 new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) phone: 608-238-8041
Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
Rachel, I had the same problem. There are two ways that work for me by changing settings in LyX (versions 1.1.4x, 1.1.5, 1.1.6cvs, probably earlier versions too): 1) put \usepackage{pslatex} in the latex preamble (see Layout-> LaTeX preamble) or 2) select "psfonts" in Layout -> Document | fonts After this, ps2pdf on a postscript output should be better when viewing with Acrobat Reader, except formula's for which I did not find a solution...yet Do expect that the fonts are not equal with these settings (most pronounced with helvetica ps fonts, which differ substantially from the LateX equivalent) Best regards Paul Rachel Greenham wrote: > > I want to produce my finished Lyx document as PDF, and this looks generally > straightforward. The resulting PDFs, however, while they print just fine, > look terrible on screen in acroread, which matters as it will be "published" > on an internal website and so is most likely to be seen using the acrobat > plugin in a browser. I haven't done anything to specify any unusual fonts, > so I would have thought it would use the standard set (Times, Helvetica, > Courier) etc., and so should scale properly. It's like it's having to load a > poorly-written font rather than use a decent one with hints etc. all set up > properly. > > ISTR someone else having this problem but don't recall seeing an answer. I > get the same results if I export as Tex and convert to PDF using pdflatex, > or if I go through dvi, or if I export as Postscript and use ps2pdf. > > Thanks in advance... > > -- > Rachel
poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
I want to produce my finished Lyx document as PDF, and this looks generally straightforward. The resulting PDFs, however, while they print just fine, look terrible on screen in acroread, which matters as it will be "published" on an internal website and so is most likely to be seen using the acrobat plugin in a browser. I haven't done anything to specify any unusual fonts, so I would have thought it would use the standard set (Times, Helvetica, Courier) etc., and so should scale properly. It's like it's having to load a poorly-written font rather than use a decent one with hints etc. all set up properly. ISTR someone else having this problem but don't recall seeing an answer. I get the same results if I export as Tex and convert to PDF using pdflatex, or if I go through dvi, or if I export as Postscript and use ps2pdf. Thanks in advance... -- Rachel