It really is a latex default fonts issue, see: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/PDF
for the question "The fonts are bad in the exported PDF, what can I do?" -- Andres On 12/7/05, John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I use the Lyx pdflatex option to produce a PDF of my thesis-in-progress. > When I view the PDF in Linux (I'm using standard FC4 packages, evince > 4.0.0 is the PDF viewer) the characters in the (standard) font looks > slightly bunched up. When I view the same PDF in Windows (Acrobat 4.0) > the fonts look OK at high levels of zoom, but at normal two-pages-on-a > screen zoom, the fonts are almost illegible. And when I print out the > document from Windows, the fonts look rather jagged. > > I've got PDFs from other Linux / Latex users which have fonts that look > fine. > > This seems to be a very common problem with PDFs produced on Linux which > are then used by Windows people. Is there a known solution? I've tried > to find information on this but haven't seen anything relevant. I can > send screenshots if you need. > > Cheers > JP > > -- > John Pye > School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering > The University of New South Wales > Sydney NSW 2052 Australia > t +61 2 9385 5127 > f +61 2 9663 1222 > mailto:john.pye_AT_student_DOT_unsw.edu.au > http://pye.dyndns.org/ > >
