[ILUG] Tex/SGML

[Conor Daly]

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Heslin <Peter.Heslin at ucd.ie>
To: Conor Daly <conor.daly at met.ie>; ilug at linux.ie <ilug at linux.ie>
Date: 23 June 2000 22:32
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Tex/SGML


>On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:57:28AM +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
>> BTW, Anyone know why my SGML -> PDF documents are turning out unreadable
>> under Windows?  I'm Writing the SGML with LyX which does a nice job of
>> formatting LinuxDoc or DocBook but when I generate the dvi and do a
dvipdf
>> on it, the pdf output looks fine in xdvi but 'orrible in Adobe Acrobat
>> reader on Win98.  I presume it's something to do with fonts but I haven't
a
>> clue how to go about all that.  Maybe I should start writing raw instead!
>
>Sounds like you are using bitmapped fonts (the LaTeX default) in your
>pdf files.  The correct but trickier solution would be to get the Type1
>versions of Computer Modern installed and then convince dvipdf to use
>them.  The easy solution is to use a different Type1 font: put
>
>\usepackage{times}
>
>(or palatino, etc.) in your preamble (LyX: Layout -> Latex preamble).
>
>Peter
>


Thanks Peter,

I'll go looking...

Conor Daly