On 22/09/2018 19:25, Daniel wrote:
On 21/09/2018 22:54, Daniel wrote:
Hi,
When I typeset a PDF with the default font settings (under Windows
10), the output text is rasterized (source and output files attached).
I haven't used the default font settings for a while, so maybe this is
normal? But it seems strange to me.
Seems like the problem is a combination of T1 encoding and the default
font. This makes the defaults in LyX a bad choice, I guess. See
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1291/why-are-bitmap-fonts-used-automatically#1293
Okay, I might know why many people haven't noticed this yet. It seems
like MiKTeX does not include and configure LaTeX with the cm-super
package by default. However, this seems to me an unreasonable default.
It basically leads to horrible results by default (see attachment).
I am worried that people are actually typesetting their documents with
the MiKTeX default and get horrible results. So, I suggest that LyX
should install cm-super by default (as it does install other packages by
default).
In order to fix the problem on my Windows 10 machine I had to manually
install the cm-super package and run "initexmf --mkmaps". I doubt that
many novices will come around this by themselves.
I am a bit worried that otherwise some people's results with LyX will
look pretty horrible (in comparison) by default.
Using cm-super also fixed the problem that the microtype option cannot
be used by default.
Alternatively, the default font-encoding could be set to "None (no
fontenc)" or the font to Latin Mordern. Neither of which strike me as
good alternatives.
Daniel
