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

[Markus Heller]

Erik Iverson <address@hidden> writes:

> Markus Heller wrote:
>> 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!
>
> 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