On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:55:40PM -0800, Harry Mangalam wrote:
> 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 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.
Er... pslatex uses Times as the base font.
The default base font for Lyx/Tex is Computer Modern.
> 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?
When I was investigating this, I found that Acrobat never embeds Times
because it is one of the "standard" fonts which it always uses (the
other two being Courier and Helvetica/Arial). This actually gave me
trouble because Times (standard Postscript font that it is) is slightly
different from Times Roman. Since I was generating my original file on
a Linux system, it used Times. But the person printing out the PDF file
was using a Windows system, and got Times Roman, and the kerning or size
was slightly different, which meant that all words with a certain letter
in them (I think it was "o") had an unsightly gap -- which is no good if
you are using the PDF files as masters for a magazine!
So I changed my base font to Utopia (after making sure to upgrade my
Ghostscript to one more recent than 5.50, because that version renders
ugly fonts in PDF because they're all bitmapped instead of outlined).
That worked fine, because the font was embedded, so it rendered the same
on both machines.
Kathryn Andersen
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