On 6/6/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been using LyX on windows XP since a while now and i am trying
> to move to Linux. I have not tried to install LyX on Linux yet (I am
> sorry but i already know that it won't be easy, I already tried once
> with no success) but my question is different now.
>
> When I view my old documents (i.e. the pdf files generated by LyX on
> Windows) on Linux (Ubuntu 7.04) the quality is very bad. I guess this
> is related to the installed fonts. maybe once I install LyX I will get
> it working as expected? please let me know if you have any
> suggestion...
Congratulations on moving to Linux. IMHO a wise choice indeed.
Perhaps some of your fonts weren't embedded, and maybe they were truetype. You
can install Truetype fonts on your Linux computer. Each distribution has its
own method for doing this -- check Ubuntu's.
Some fonts are ugly and pixelated at certain magnifications, even if they're
embedded. Also, different PDF viewers do better and worse jobs with fonts.
For instance, the gv viewer doesn't do a good job with fonts. xpdf is better.
You can download, free of charge, a Linux version of Acroread, which does an
excellent job with fonts.
By the way, kpdf is also a very nice pdf viewer.
Paul
