latex" uses PostScript fonts, so no problems occur.
> > Is there any good reason to use bitmap fonts???
> > Why in the world should Acroread support bitmap fonts?
>
> Why is pslatex not the "default" font type?
And one step further: Why should LyX support bitmap fonts?
Hallo Marcus!
Am Die, 23 Jan 2001, schrieb Marcus Beyer:
> So my wish for LyX 1.2: Please remove the support for bitmap fonts!
Its a joke, isn't it?
Ciao!
juh
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nts-experience".
What ugly font experience? Are you concerned about screen fonts or
fonts in the DVI file? Fonts in the DVI file are only a problem in PDF
files AFAIK.
Marcus> 2. The target document becomes device dependent.
That's only for PDF. So what you are after is "improv
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Marcus Beyer wrote:
> And one step further: Why should LyX support bitmap fonts?
Do you mean the editing (in LyX window) fonts or the resulting document
file fonts?
Editing fonts:
- not everybody may have outline fonts (esp. older XFree
distributions)
> Do you mean the editing (in LyX window) fonts
> or the resulting document file fonts?
The latter. I am sorry for being unprecise here! So anew:
My wish for LyX 1.2:
Please remove the support for bitmap fonts in target documents!
juh> Its a joke, isn't it?
Not at all
Marcus Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Should the user know about the resolution of the devices?
| Should the user "compile" his document anew,
| when he wants to use another printer?
Yes, to get _best_ reuslts.
| Citation from www.lyx.org: "LyX lets you concentrate on writing [...]"
|
|
Tuukka Toivonen a écrit :
> > 1. Almost every new LyX user has to make the "ugly-fonts-experience".
>
> Not really, just don't use Acroread which is proprietary software anyway
> and shouldn't be used. Acroread isn't installed by default anyway on most
> Linux distributions, but gv is (which disp
> | Should the user know about the resolution of the devices?
> | Should the user "compile" his document anew,
> | when he wants to use another printer?
>
> Yes, to get _best_ reuslts.
Don't you get always best results with outline fonts?
> | > (granted, outline fonts are nevertheless better).
>
>>From: Marcus Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:47:02 +0100
>>Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul E Johnson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subj
I feel this is a bit stupid discussion, but I hope you don't get offended
even if I disagree :-)
On 23 Jan 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Bitmap fontes created for the resoluton and size that they are view at
> are better than a scaled outline font.
I suppose you mean the bitmap fonts creat
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
> For screen consultation, latex2html or similar is better IMHO , PDF
> is rather useful for printing (where the font rendering is OK).
I have to assert that html currently is not very useful. HTML is a great
description language, but there is awf
Marcus Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > | Should the user know about the resolution of the devices?
| > | Should the user "compile" his document anew,
| > | when he wants to use another printer?
| >
| > Yes, to get _best_ reuslts.
|
| Don't you get always best results with outline fonts?
N
> > Bitmap fontes created for the resoluton and size that they are view at
> > are better than a scaled outline font.
>
> I suppose you mean the bitmap fonts created by dvips (?) for postscript
> files. In that case, you are not quite right, because they _are_ outline
> fonts, they are just alread
I carefully read all the threads about pdf, acroread, fonts and so on.
I don't think that disabling bitmap font support is the best solution.
However I also think that:
What does an "average-stupid" user as I am ask for? A decent pdf file from my
thesis. And It is very likely that my "average-
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