Guenter Milde wrote: > This is (most probably) a side-effect of using different fonts. > Unfortunately, you do not specify what about the PDF is so much worse.
Thanks for your answer and sorry that I was not more precise. I thought that perhaps it was a known problem. In general the text looks a bit irregular when compared to the dvi. The thickness of the lines and the distances of the letters change somehow. More apparently, (using e.g. kpdf at 207% Zoom), the Umlauts are bigger than the corresponding letters without dots. And if I use acroread instead of kpdf, the result is even worse! Parts of the letters are in grey instead of black, most apparently at a zoom of 300%. For acroread, the difference to the pdf-file produced without the fontenc-package is enormous! I have attached three sample-files: * the original lyx-file test.lyx, in which I have not changed any standard settings of fonts or whatever. Just started a new file and started writing a few sentences. * the exported tex-file test.tex (with package fontenc) * the modified tex-file test2.tex (without fontenc) For me, test2.tex always produces a reasonable result, for dvi as well as for pdf and no matter what reader I use. Instead test.tex produces still a reasonable dvi, but a pdf-file which has the above described problems. And I am confused that this is not an everyday-problem of many people. > Did you also try to copy and paste a text with umlaut? Or search for my name? Ah, interesting. I didn't know that. At least finally I see some use in this package. However, usually I am working only with English text and don't need Umlauts, but still fontenc is loaded (I've just tried it with a lyx file that contained just one word without any special characters). > The recommended method to produce readable PDF files is to select a suitable > font, e.g. LatinModern or one of the PSNFSS fonts. Well, it's one thing to optimize a file for the pdf-output and another that I am working usually with dvi and ps, but from time to time need to produce a pdf-version of it to somebody (who might use acroread on windows). It cannot be that the standard output (without changing any settings) produces such a bad quality? If you want, I can also send you my screen-shots, but I don't want to fill your mailbox with pictures without your permission. - Sebastian
test.lyx
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%% LyX 1.6.4 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/. %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} \begin{document} Abgesehen davon, dass die Schrift insgesamt nicht besonders schön wirkt (Abstände und Dicke der Buchstaben sind etwas ungleichmäßig, im Vergleich zum DVI-File), ist vorallem auffällig, dass die Umlaute nicht die richtige Größe haben, sondern etwas größer sind, als die Vokale ohne Stricherl: uüoöaäe\"e! \end{document}
%% LyX 1.6.4 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/. %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing. \documentclass{article} %\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} \begin{document} Abgesehen davon, dass die Schrift insgesamt nicht besonders schön wirkt (Abstände und Dicke der Buchstaben sind etwas ungleichmäßig, im Vergleich zum DVI-File), ist vorallem auffällig, dass die Umlaute nicht die richtige Größe haben, sondern etwas größer sind, als die Vokale ohne Stricherl: uüoöaäe\"e! \end{document}
