Re: a bit offtopic, fonts in exported PDF documents

From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: a bit offtopic, fonts in exported PDF documents
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:02:21 -0500	[thread overview]
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I know this is old, but check here?
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-557746.html

<http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-557746.html>They don't really
"solve" the problem except by doing what you did -- remove the encoding
lines. Perhaps you should try verifying your LaTeX fonts packages or check
with your distro repository to see what exists? I'm on Arch and they some
fantastic documentation. Here, for example, are the various texlive packages
I can pick from:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TeX_Live#Group_texlive-most

Not saying one of those would fix the problem, but I wonder if you could
verify you have the fontsextra package? Just an idea?

Or run 'pdflatex file.tex' from the command line to see if any errors come
up when using pdflatex directly vs. through org? You might be able to see
more of the inner details that way and if it's complaining?

John

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone can
>
> 1) reproduce what I'm seeing
> 2) help in understanding what's going on.
>
> If I export an Org file to LaTeX, the resulting
> .tex file contains the following in its header:
>
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{t1enc}
>
> Long story short:
>
> The resulting .PDF file from pdflatex looks quite
> bad in evince, and quite good in Acroread. By "quite bad",
> I mean the fonts are practically illegible, very thin
> and wiry.
>
> If I comment out *both* of those package requirements,
> recompile the PDF, the resulting PDF looks great in all
> viewers I can find.
>
> The Fonts specified in the Properties of the document
> change when I use those packages versus not use them.
>
> However, the packages are the default for good reason I'm sure,
> but C-c C-e d fires up Evince on my system, so the default
> is not very pleasant.
>
> I realize this isn't org-mode question per se, but can
> anyone else replicate this, and do you know what's happening?
> It seems like a potential problem with Evince specifically, since
> Acroread seems to handle the resulting PDF just fine.
>
> Finally, does anyone know why the t1enc package is required, the
> only thing I read about it was the following:
>
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=t1enc
>
> Thanks!
> Erik
>
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