On Wednesday 06 June 2007 14:52, Richard Heck wrote: > Oisin Feeley wrote: > > On 6/6/07, Ares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > >> > 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. > > > > [snip] > > > >> . Anyway you can view a > >> sample pdf generated on my machine (BTW with pdflatex) at: > >> > >> http://ares001.altervista.org/job/downloads/dispense.pdf > > > > When I look at that using an Adobe7.0 plugin to Firefox it looks very > > nice. Perhaps you could post a screenshot indicating the problem? > > Otherwise you could receive as many different responses as there are > > combinations of PDF viewer and OS! > > It's less good in xpdf or kpdf. This is a known problem, I believe. The > default LaTeX fonts tend not to look so good in the xpdf-based readers. > Changing the font, to Times, say, should solve the problem.
Richard -- what do you think of Century Schoolbook? I've used that for my last few Ebooks, because onscreen it seems to look black and legible, and it seems to be available with LyX. Thanks SteveT
