Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to get a "nice" looking PDF from a latex document. I'm using > the normal article class, with no other packages loaded. I'm using a > couple of symbols that I wouldn't expect to find on a keyboard (namely > \times and \equiv) but apart from that I don't think I'm using anything > unusual. > > I'm using pdflatex to output the PDF, and I'm aiming for print quality, > not screen quality, if they're not related. > > I'm seeing a variety of problems in the .pdf output, but latex by itself > doesn't exhibit any of them when I create DVI output. ... > I'm running up-to-date sid with tetex-{base,bin,extra} installed. No > manual configuration's been done beyond apt-get's efforts.
So am I, and I can't reproduce any of your problems. Maybe a sample of the LaTeX source would help. This file should exhibit most of the problems you mentioned, but looks fine to me (pdflatex; xpdf):
bin00000.bin
Description: application/latex
(With both "fi" and "ffi" ligatures, for bonus points.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell