Thanks to all of you (Rich Shepard, Adolfo Manuel Pachón Rodríguez, Steffen Evers,
Robin Turner, George De Bruin) for your suggestions. I'm embarassed that I did not
realize that the
Layout=>Document=>Document page would allow me to change the base font, but having had
it pointed out to me by a number of you, I agree that the best base font by far is
'pslatex', as George noted.
This font looks great in both postscript preview and acrobat on both linux & Mac
(can't get acrobat 5 to work on W2k, what a surprise..).
It made no difference whether GNU ghostscript or aladdin GS was used.
It made no difference whether I used View -> PDF or View -> PDF (pdflatex).
This answers my question short term, but begs the question of how does one get the
fonts one wants to render correctly. Some Journals have font requirements (TimesRoman
usually) and while you can
always submit paper copies, many want electronicly viewable versions to send out for
faster review.
Since Times and Palatino are 'std' typefaces, which should be supported by acrobat,
does anyone know what the process is to get them to render correctly?
I suspect that it's a typeface naming or embedding problem, but since acrobat is
supposed to be able to embed type 1 fonts, which is what the majority of these are,
why doesn't this work correctly?
This may be edging back towards the kind of micromanagement of detail that Lyx frees
you from, but my inner geek wants to know.
Thanks again to all who wrote (politely, helpfully, despite the stupid question).
thanks again,
Harry (Lyx convert!) Mangalam
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Cheers, Harry
Harry J Mangalam -- (949) 856 2847 (v&f) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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