On 2018-10-02, Daniel wrote: > On 02/10/2018 08:58, Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2018-09-21, Daniel wrote:
> On 02/10/2018 08:58, Guenter Milde wrote: > > On 2018-09-21, Daniel wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > It is a known problem: https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9741 > Thanks Günter. > I was curious why it seems to have gotten so little attention even though it > does lead to horrible output by default. The "horribility" varies also according to the PDF-viewer. Some PDF-viewers have a pretty decent antialiasing. > My guess is that in some common LaTeX distributions, like the very popular > TeX Live, the problem does not appear because it automatically loads and > configures the cm-super package when using computer modern with T1 font > encoding. I am not using TeX Live, so my question is whether this is a > correct assumption. CM-Super it is no essential part of TeXLive. The recommended T1-encoded CM-lookalike is Latin Modern. If CM-Super is installed, it announces itself as a substitute font for CM in the T1 encoding and will be used instead of the bitmap substitute font. This is true for MiKTeX as well as TeXLive. Latin Modern, in contrast is selected by setting the default font family (in LaTeX usually via the lmodern package). > However, when using MiKTeX, the cm-super package is not installed by default > due to its big footprint. So, I suggest that LyX should ask the user whether > cm-super should be installed to better render the default font and > configures it then accordingly to be used as default. > The alternative seems to be to abandon T1 as default. Abadoning T1 is only sensible in languages where you don't have accented characters. The decent thing to do is selecting the LatinModern fonts. This can e.g. be done in the LyX default template. Latin Modern is a high quality T1 encoded vector CM-lookalike and the recommendation by the TeX community. Suggestions to use LatinModern as LyX default font go even further back in time (10 years or so). At this time, LM was still new and not always installed. Arguments against inclusion in the default template included the problem that this overrides font selection by a document class -- this could be solved by specific templates for the relevant classes. Günter
