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[Orgmode] Re: a bit offtopic, fonts in exported PDF documents


From: Markus Heller
Subject: [Orgmode] Re: a bit offtopic, fonts in exported PDF documents
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:49:19 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt)

Erik Iverson <address@hidden> 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!

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.

Just my 2 cents
Markus




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