Søren O'Neill wrote:
Hi John,
I've found that many pdfs created in LyX on my Linux box look jagged and are
hard to read on-screen on windows boxes, but look just fine when printed.
I suspect this is because the windows box doesnt have the fonts used, but the
printer does.
Nope. The font really is included in the pdf, but acrobat does a
poor job when using it. The problem is only in acrobat, that's why
the printout is fine.
The easy solution is to stick
\usepackage{lmodern}
in the document preamble. That embeds a vector font instead of a
bitmap font, and then you don't get trouble with acrobat. The document
should look the same.
Switching to another font (like pslatex) also does the trick, but of course
you may have your reasons for not doing that. It will vertainly look
different, not all the other fonts have a supporting math font as well,
and so on. (In those cases, any math stuff stands out as mismatched.)
Helge Hafting
