Some fonts that look good when printed on a laser or inkjet printer come out too light when used in traditional offset printing. You need to test the fonts in advance if you plan to produce a book and you want really high quality results. Hinting doesn't matter when material is printed on a high-resolution device.
PDFs have become a standard in the printing industry and your output from Xe(La)TeX should print just fine. Mine always have, anyway (but my stuff is text-oriented; if you are using a lot of color photos etc. things can get more complicated).
David On 4/15/2011 8:30 AM, Kārlis Repsons wrote:
Just I wonder what happens when the written material must be printed in a book (of course with technical side in mind)... Haven't tried ever, but it might be necessary, so would the produced PDF be enough? And fonts -- on screen it seems to be most important that (besides overall fitness) they have good hinting, but about printed material I don't know. What experience could be recalled here? Is there any one-for-all set of fonts or it's possible that font must be chosen depending on if the produced work will be printed? -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
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