From: Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>
To: Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: a bit offtopic, fonts in exported PDF documents
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:07:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C76E58C.4050904@ccbr.umn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0v8w3trqn4.fsf@gmail.com>
Markus Heller wrote:
> Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu> 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.
>
> As far as I understand, you need Type 1 fonts for good looking pdfs
> (Type 3 are bitmap fonts and thus not scalable), but the actual font
> encoding shouldn't matter.
Yes! But as I think(?) I discovered, when T1 encoding is specified,
the Type 1 Computer Modern fonts don't support it, and therefore
are not included in the PDF. In my case, a Type 3 font was substituted
that looked nasty. I needed to install proper Type 1 fonts that support
the T1 encoding, like Cm-super or Latin Modern.
Since orgmode is telling latex to use T1 encoding by default, I was
bitten by the fact that I had no Type 1 fonts that supported this
encoding, with my bare-bones latex install from a relatively common
Linux distro.
My message is just serving as information about how to get those fonts.
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-26 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-26 17:34 a bit offtopic, fonts in exported PDF documents Erik Iverson
2010-08-26 18:02 ` John Hendy
2010-08-26 21:14 ` Erik Iverson
2010-08-26 21:49 ` Markus Heller
2010-08-26 22:07 ` Erik Iverson [this message]
2010-08-26 22:50 ` Markus Heller
2010-08-26 23:08 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-26 23:38 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-26 22:18 ` John Hendy
2010-08-26 22:44 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-26 21:37 ` Alan L Tyree
2010-08-26 21:40 ` Erik Iverson
2010-08-26 21:41 ` a bit offtopic, fonts in exported PDF documents - oops Alan L Tyree
2010-08-26 21:46 ` Erik Iverson
2010-08-30 7:43 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-30 14:50 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-30 15:12 ` Erik Iverson
2010-08-30 15:58 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-30 19:04 ` Joost Kremers
2010-08-31 6:31 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-31 6:51 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-31 7:09 ` Carsten Dominik
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