Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > 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.
[Harry makes another, typically urbane, erudite, and debonair entry to yet another list.] Well, if I knew everything, I wouldn't be on this list.. :) Thanks very much for the correction, and especially the expansion below. > > > 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. Fabulous - I seem to have utopia already installed. I'll do the same and see what develops cross platform. Many thanks again for setting me straight. Best Wishes, Harry
