Hi Paul, Paul schrieb:
I'm trying to understand exactly how LaTeX handles fonts/typefaces.
Maybe you want to take http://www.tug.org/fonts/ as a starting point. An extremely good read is the fonts chapter from book "The LaTeX Companion" 2nd. Ed.
Is there a way to see which fonts are available to LaTeX?
No, not in a single place. try 'texdoc psnfss2e' for the "standard" postscript fonts.
What I need to be sure is that users on different machines running Windows or Mac, with different fonts installed, will still be able toread the PDF document. For example, if they don't have Times or New Century Schoolbook installed, will they still be able to view them? Does it matter whether they have the TrueType or Type 1 version of it?
As already said, that is only a problem if you are using standard postscript fonts and your latex installation doesn't embed them.
I read that Type 3 fonts are bad, so does it matter that I have a line beginning "[none]" that says Type 3?
Yes, in type 3 fonts the glyphs ("letters") are rendert into bitmap
graphic which acrobat reader versions prior to ver. 6 render extremely
poor.
Why do some lines begin with what looks like 6 random letters? Is this an internal name for an embedded font?
Yes, don't care for the names. Yours, Karsten
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