>
> It has just come to my attention that postscipt files produced by dvips (in
> linux and windows) often results in equations and some font types that don't
> reproduce well. This is because that computer modern (type 3) fonts are used
> .
> These are bit map fonts and consequently are a little dodgey when viewing
> either on the screen or printing after distilling to pdf. The solution is to
> use type 1 postscript fonts instead which are fully scalable.
>
The Type1 versions of computer modern are automatically used when you use
pdflatex to go directly from tex->pdf. (At least on standard RedHat6.*
installations)
Horst
