[solved] pdflatex doesn't use type 1 fonts

moskvax · 2006-10-29 13:12:07

Today I discovered that pdflatex has never produced a PDF for me with embedded Type 1 (outline) fonts, instead it's always used Type 3 (bitmap) fonts. I've only noticed this because the new version of evince no longer handles Type 3 fonts as well as it used to, so my PDF's are now barely readable. Looking around on the net tells me that pdflatex ought to be using Type 1 fonts by default.

Has anyone else ever had this problem? Any ideas on how to fix it?

patroclo7 · 2006-10-29 16:24:48

I have the following lines in my usual preamble. Surely 'fontenc' is relevant, maybe also auguill (I do not remember what it is).

usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{textcomp}
usepackage{aeguill}
usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

Snowman · 2006-10-29 19:28:21

In my case I have:

usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{times}

The usepackage{times} makes it use the adobe times roman font instead of metafonts. If you don't like times fonts, you can try the other *.sty in /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/. There's courier, hevetica, etc.

moskvax · 2006-10-30 01:07:08

Snowman wrote:

In my case I have:
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{times}

Yeah, it was usepackage{times} that I was lacking.
usepackage{aeguill} also works, actually that outputs PDFs with the Computer Modern fonts that I'm used to so I think it will be the one I use.

I'd always been using fontenc with the T1 option, but somehow I must have missed the part of whatever latex tutorial I was reading where it explained you need to include another package to use Type 1 fonts.

Thanks for your help.

Snowman · 2006-10-30 05:50:47

aeguill seems to be for French guillemets. I can't think on how it could affect fonts. The reason I started using the fontenc line is to get hyphenation on words containing accented characters. It might also do other things.
Anyway, I'm glad you got it fixed.

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[solved] pdflatex doesn't use type 1 fonts

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