From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Heller Subject: Re: a bit offtopic, fonts in exported PDF documents Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:50:55 -0700 Message-ID: <0v4oehrnsg.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4C76A590.9050800@ccbr.umn.edu> <4C76D92E.1060308@ccbr.umn.edu> <0v8w3trqn4.fsf@gmail.com> <4C76E58C.4050904@ccbr.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46830 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OolGt-0006c5-Ti for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:50:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OolGo-0000zY-SQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:50:11 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OolGo-0000zL-KZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:50:06 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OolGm-0001yx-Bh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:50:04 +0200 Received: from mail.cdrd.ca ([142.103.191.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:50:04 +0200 Received: from hellerm2 by mail.cdrd.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:50:04 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Erik Iverson writes: > Markus Heller wrote: >> Erik Iverson writes: >> >>> John, >>> >>> Thank you for your reply. >>> >>> For those that don't want to read all that follows, please note my >>> conclusion, given here: >>> >>> Since orgmode is automatically telling latex to use T1 encoding, >>> perhaps we should somewhere document to the user that Type 1 >>> fonts should be available to get the best looking PDF possible. >>> Otherwise, type 3 fonts will be substituted. I got suitable >>> Type-1 fonts by installing the texlive-fonts-extra package >>> under Ubuntu. >> >> Note that T1 *font encoding* has nothing to do with Type 1 fonts! > > Yes, thank you. I gathered that eventually, but it did take some > time to appreciate they are completely different concepts. Is > the following correct? > > Some Type 1 fonts *support* the T1 encoding. Computer Modern is > not one of those, so you need some that do. CM-super or Latin > Modern are two Type 1 font packages that do support the T1 encoding. To my knowledge, the above is correct. I make no guarantees, though ... Cheers Markus