Andrew Harrington wrote:
> I am not managing to get two things I want with fonts:
> I want English text + .png graphics to look decent in Acroread. I get
> complete output using pdflatex, but as the Extended Features Guide
> 5.3.6.2 mentions, the fonts look awful, so I followed the suggestion and
> put in my preamble
> \usepackage{ae,aecompl}
> Then I get a decent font in Acroread.
\usepackage{lmodern}
(the Latin Modern fonts) is a much better choice nowadays.
> However, when I put a double quote character in Lyx-code, I get a black
> square as output for the quotes. (Single quotes are OK, though two
> single quotes together gives the same problem.) I do not know how many
> other characters would give the same problem.
This is a known limitation of the ae package. You might try
\usepackage{aeguill}
but I'd still recommend Latin Modern.
HTH,
Jürgen
