Re: [Sheflug] LaTeX

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Jose" == Dans  <us-ascii> writes:

    Jose> 	A couple of points: PDF files have only a number of
    Jose> fonts they love and work with (times, helvetica). Generally,
    Jose> LaTeX uses Computer Modern by default. So the PDF file will
    Jose> have bitmapped fonts, unless you tell latex to use Times,
    Jose> Helvetica or such (in Lyx, add to the Latex Preamble
    Jose> \usepackage{times}

    Jose> 	If you use adobe fonts, the file size is reduced
    Jose> considerably in the PDF.

And be very careful about non-Adobe scalable fonts.  I don't know
versions or current status offhand, but both Ghostscript 6+ (aka
ps2pdf) and pdflatex are capable of producing PDF files (entirely
legal by the Adobe spec) that (some versions, including ones currently
available for Windows 9x, of) Acropants can't read, and will sometimes
spew flaming death on.

Acknowledged as a bug by Adobe, who also indicated they weren't going
to do anything urgent about it.  YMMV, I've only seen flaming death
with Japanese fonts, so y'all are probably safe.

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