Stefano Franchi wrote: > If you are willing to spend a few hours (well, more than a few....) with > Ph. Lehmannn's FontInstallation Guide, you'll be able to install any > Postscript Type 1 font you may desire. It consists of a series of > tutorials for Fontinst. On the other hand, if portability is a concern, > you should stick to the basic PDF fonts as other have suggested. Acrobat > reader
Thanks to everyone for all the feedback on fonts. I managed to work out where some of the strange fonts were coming from: It was the copyright symbol that was being done as a Type 3 font and looked a bit jagged. I installed some of the Computer Modern fonts and it now seems to be embedding the relevant information to the PDF as a Type 1 font. I guess the standard Type 1 Times font doesn't include a copyright symbol. It seems to be in the Times New Roman TrueType font though. Also, the italic chapter names in the header at the top of every page (memoir document class) were coming out as an embedded NimbusRomNo9L-Regu-Slant_167 font for some reason. All other italic text was just using a standard Times-Italic non-embedded font. I assume there's some difference between Italic and Slanted - italic is a properly-designed font but slanted is done programatically by shearing the standard roman font maybe? You said about sticking to basic PDF fonts, but I would have thought that it would be the other way round - unusual fonts would be *more* portable because they are actually embedded within the document. I'll check out the guides at http://www.tug.org/applications/fontinst/ in more detail. Paul.
